Councillors seek IDA meeting over jobs

County councillors are to ask the heads of the IDA and Enterprise Ireland to visit North-West Cork in a push to have more industries located there after a factory closure in Kanturk.

Councillors seek IDA meeting over jobs
Sat, 07 Jul, 2018 - 01:00
Sean O’Riordan

The lack of jobs in the Duhallow area has been a constant concern for councillors in that region for many years. The loss of 24 jobs following the announcement on Thursday that Fullwood Packo was to close caused further worries.

The factory, which makes milking machines and cooling tanks, is to relocate all manufacturing operations to mainland Europe.

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