VIDEO: Paper factory fire is ‘devastating blow’

The family who run a paper business which was burnt to the ground in a suspected arson attack have vowed “we will overcome this unfortunate incident”.

Dawn Paper & Tissue Manufacturing is run by the McEnteggart family from Duleek in Co Meath and employs 22 people. It manufactures domestic tissue and supplies the industrial cleaning paper industry.

The company has been based at the Donore Road Industrial Estate in Drogheda for 20 years and family members visited the burnt out shell of the plant yesterday morning.