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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 2013
EDITION NO. 34,811
Serving Cork for 120 years ‘Blanket of gloom’ over Blackpool By SARAH HORGAN
BLACKPOOL business owners say a blanket of gloom has been hanging over the village since plans to relocate their post office were announced. They say livelihoods will be lost and even more young people will have to emigrate if the planned move to the nearby Blackpool Shopping Centre goes ahead next month as planned. A statement from the Blackpool Village Traders Association this morning said: “This is our lifeline. Many small businesses most of whom have served the people of Blackpool for three generations are under threat of closure if this move goes ahead. There are 86 jobs at risk in the village.” Tadhg O’Leary of O’Shea’s Pharmacy in the village added: “Businesses are clinging on by a weak thread. Third-generation families of the area in particular are vehemently opposed to the move. “If residents of the village are forced to emigrate, the community element will be lost completely. ” ● See page nine for more.
Tadhg O’Leary of O’Shea’s Pharmacy, Blackpool: Vehemently opposed to the move.
Minister vows ‘no nonsense’ on burger crisis MINISTER for Agriculture Simon Coveney today vowed to take a nononsense approach to protect the Irish meat industry after horse and pig meats were found in frozen burgers.
Minister Coveney said it was “totally unacceptable” that people were unknowingly eating meats they did not want. But he stressed that the controversy was nothing like health scares of the past, such
as the BSE scandal. “There are no health concerns here but it is totally unacceptable that consumers are eating products that they do not want to eat, such as horse meat,” he said. His department was taking a tough
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stance to ensure the reputation of an industry worth €3bn a year to Ireland and which employs more than 100,000 people, he added. His comments come as one of the factories at the centre of horse meat controversy, Silvercrest in Monaghan, recalled 10 million burgers today. Silvercrest supplied the Tesco Everyday Value Burgers that had 29% horse meat. Paul Finnerty, chief executive of ABP Food Group, which owns Silvercrest, blamed a beef-based product that was ● Continued on page two.
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