Enda Kenny: 2015 is the year of rural recovery

Enda Kenny has described 2015 as “the year of rural recovery for Ireland” because of the imminent removal of the “straitjacket” of milk quotas and the development of initiatives such as a major new dairy processing plant officially opened yesterday by Glanbia Ingredients.

The plant at Belview Port in south Kilkenny is part of a €235m investment by Glanbia and designed to capitalise on the imminent ending of EU milk quotas.

It will see milk from the region being developed into infant milk power products and nutritional ingredients for the export market.