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Tue 09 Sep 2008Fears grow for 200 jobs at Cappoquin Chickens
SUPERMARKETS AND other commercial purchasers of poultry were yesterday urged to buy Irish produce by the IFA as fears grew for 200 jobs at Cappoquin Chickens in Co Waterford, after a receiver was appointed to the company.
IFA president Padraig Walshe told a rally attended by some 100 poultry producers and their families outside the plant that the threat to the €200 million Irish chicken industry from cheap foreign imports had never been greater.
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