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A new manufacturing plant for soft drinks manufacturer Coca Cola in Co Wexford will create 60 jobs in a year and 100 after five years, the company said.

Taoiseach Brian Cowen today officiated at the ground-breaking ceremony to mark the start of construction on the plant on a 41-acre site in the IDA Business & Technology Park in Wexford.