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The Carroll  Cuisine meat plant in Co  Offaly which has suspended operations until further HSE test results on its workers are returned. Picture Eamonn Farrell / Rollingnews.ie

Meat Industry Ireland and trade union Siptu yesterday agreed that wider rapid testing was needed to address the coronavirus outbreaks in four meat-processing plants that have led to the introduction of a local lockdown in Kildare, Offaly and Laois.

The workers and the local community will welcome any measure that will help them return to the so-called ‘new normal’.