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More than 200 jobs set to go at Clare pharmaceutical plant

Plans announced last November to close the Roche’s Clare-based plant are going ahead after failure to secure a buyer.

HUNDREDS OF WORKERS are set to lose their jobs at a Roche pharmaceutical plant in Clare.

The company announced last year that the facility was set to close as part of a global restructuring programme, but there had been hope that the plant could be bought over by another pharmaceutical company – a move that would secured workers’ jobs.

The plant – based in the town of Clarecastle – had been in operation since 1974 and was the only facility the company has in Ireland.

There will not be an instant closure at the facility, with the 240 workers being phased out over the next three years.

The company had announced its plans to close the plant last November, when managing director of Roche Ireland Gerry Cahill said that he had not been given any advanced notice of its closure.

The company had been working alongside the IDA in its efforts to secure a buyer for the site.

In a statement last night, the company said that negotiations to transfer the services at Clarecastle to another company had been unsuccessful.

It said that production at the site will “cease in a phased approach currently estimated to be completed between 2018 and 2019 when Roche will exit the site”.

The company said that it would now be entering into a consultation with its employees and their representatives.

The international downsizing by the company has been attributed to it focusing its attention on a “new generation of specialised medicines”, which are produced in smaller volumes than medicines would have traditionally been.

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    Jun 23rd 2024, 10:34 PM

    Scotland weren’t Hungary enough

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    Jun 24th 2024, 12:08 AM

    defo peno.. ref was muck.. hard luck Scotland..

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    Mute Kevin Kennedy
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    Jun 24th 2024, 12:12 AM

    @Stiles: Thanks Johnny

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    Mute Sean O'Dhubhghaill
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    Jun 24th 2024, 6:28 AM

    @Stiles: Scottish player was pulling Hungarian player by shirt. Both fell.

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    Mute Nodon
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    Jun 24th 2024, 3:27 PM

    @Sean O’Dhubhghaill: correct and all the pundits ‘missed’ that though it was perfectly obvious in the replays.

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    Mute Sean O'Dhubhghaill
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    Jun 23rd 2024, 10:21 PM

    What happened Varga? I have seen 3 or 4 replays and can’t see what happened. Good news us that apparently he is OK.

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    Jun 23rd 2024, 10:24 PM

    @Sean O’Dhubhghaill: Took an elbow to the head and knocked clean out. Hopefully nothing more than concussion.

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    Jun 23rd 2024, 11:06 PM

    @Sean O’Dhubhghaill: From the still image the keeper caught him with his trailing left arm after punching the ball clear with his right. Could have been a head or neck injury nothing been confirmed other than he’s now stable in hospital.

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    Jun 24th 2024, 9:59 AM

    @Kevin Collins: any GAA player would have kept playing

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    Jun 24th 2024, 12:34 PM

    @Sean O’Dhubhghaill: broken bones in his face & eye socket & bad concussion aparently.good to see hes awake though and stable in hospital.was scary enough watching can only imagine how frightened his family were. Speedy recovery!

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    Jun 24th 2024, 3:24 AM

    0 shots on target…again! Says it all.

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    Jun 24th 2024, 1:37 AM

    Hard luck Scotland ,from Ireland ,we Celts. Xxx When you know you know. X

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    Jun 24th 2024, 6:43 AM

    @Ann Nugent: no way hard luck. DEFINITELY DELIGHTED SCOTLAND GONE..DONT FORGET THEM AND WALES VOTED FOR FRANCE TO HOLD RUGBY WORLD CUP LAST YEAR . TOOK THE BIG FAT BROWN ENVELOPE. AT LEAST ENGLAND

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    Jun 24th 2024, 7:23 AM

    @Christopher Fealy what a strange comment,a dub obviously

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    Mute Sean O'Dhubhghaill
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    Jun 24th 2024, 9:35 AM

    @Christopher Fealy: At least England………….. what?

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    Jun 24th 2024, 9:39 AM

    @Sean O’Dhubhghaill: Voted for us…he has a point.

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    Jun 24th 2024, 9:50 AM

    @sean weir: Don’t worry bog warrior.

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    Jun 24th 2024, 7:20 AM

    Any one but ENGLAND ,and that was definitely a penalty for Scotland

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    Jun 24th 2024, 8:31 AM

    @sean weir: I looked this morning expecting to see a stonewall penalty after ready all the comments. Not a penalty, the scot player manhandled him.

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    Jun 24th 2024, 9:02 AM

    Definitely a penalty. Ref needs glasses.

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    Jun 24th 2024, 9:36 AM

    @reg morrisey: Scottish player pulled him. Both fell.

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    Jun 24th 2024, 9:44 AM

    @Sean O’Dhubhghaill: it was definitely a penno. Caught the Scottish player with his knee before. I’ve seen pennos given for a lot less

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    Jun 24th 2024, 5:17 AM

    I suppose you’re wondering what’s under me kilt!!!

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