Farah staff laid off

ALMOST all of the 150 staff at the Farah clothing plant in Kiltimagh, Co Mayo, were laid off indefinitely yesterday following…

ALMOST all of the 150 staff at the Farah clothing plant in Kiltimagh, Co Mayo, were laid off indefinitely yesterday following a fire at the company's Galway plant a fortnight ago. The lay-offs are due to a shortage of raw material for the production line. Some 80 workers in Galway are already laid-off because of the blaze. There is no indication of when work in either Galway or Kiltimagh will resume.

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