Plans for €500k factory ‘stymied by funding problems’

A businessman who hopes to double his workforce by building a €500,000 food production facility in Co Cork says his plans have been stymied by cuts and changes to the State’s Leader funding scheme.

Jimmy Allen, managing director of De Róiste Foods in Baile Mhúirne, expects shortly to complete the purchase of a 1.9 acre site in nearby Réidh na nDoirí, on part of the area formerly occupied by a mushroom production facility.

He has been granted planning permission for a 600 sq m factory which will include a production hall, industrial catering kitchen, slicing rooms, and offices.