Steel redundancies herald further jobs blow

Ireland was hit by its third jobs blow in three days tonight with the announcement that the Irish Ispat steel-manufacturing works in Cork are to close with 400 redundancies.

Steel redundancies herald further jobs blow
Fri, 15 Jun, 2001 - 18:47

Ireland was hit by its third jobs blow in three days tonight with the announcement that the Irish Ispat steel-manufacturing works in Cork are to close with 400 redundancies.

The Ispat company bought the former Irish Steel corporation from the Dublin government for a nominal £1 five years ago.

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