Government policy fails region

THE announcement that 240 jobs at FCI Ireland will be lost by the end of next year is another hammer-blow to Fermoy and confirms that north Cork is facing its worst employment crisis for decades.

The area is now experiencing the same decline in industry that Cork city suffered in the 1980s when large companies like Ford and Dunlop closed.

The news comes hot on the heels of the crisis at BUPA and it follows hundreds of job losses in north Cork in the last two years, at Dairygold, Nestlé and Greencore.