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EMPLOYEES AT A cigar factory in Ballaghaderreen, Co Roscommon have been told they are facing redundancy.
Exclusive Cigar Manufacturers Ireland’s 38 workers have been told they will lose their jobs next month unless an alternative to closing the factory is found.
Local independent TD Michael Fitzmaurice said he is “dismayed” at the news that redundancies could come into effect as early as 15 May.
“It is a huge jobs blow to the region and I will be seeking a meeting with the management of the plant to find out what their exact plans are for the closure and for the premises going forward.
“Having been a solid employer in the town of Ballaghaderreen since 1978, the closure of one of the biggest private employers in west Roscommon is a huge shock to the economy of the area and a massive blow to the 38 people involved.”
Fitzmaurice added that he will raise the issue with Jobs Minister Mary Mitchell O’Connor and ask Enterprise Ireland and the IDA to “prioritise the Ballaghaderreen area for alternative and additional employment as soon as possible”.
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No way! They make cigars in Ireland? Actually, they make cigars in ROSCOMMON????? I guess this reaction may sum up the company’s problems
Cute hoors in Roscommon no doubt. They’d sell cigars to the Cubans.
@Len Brennan: They were going to make the cigars in Westmeath but it was too re Moate…
@Phil O’ Meara: get out Phil. Out
@Phil O’ Meara: very good
@Phil O’ Meara: That’s an offally bad pun
@Len Brennan: surprised myself
@Mick Andrews: nice people in Roscommon actually.
@Len Brennan: exactly Len management obviously never got into marketing as it seems nobody outside the pale knew it exsisted.Surprised enterprise Ireland couldn’t help them as they crying out for exports and cigars can be sold worldwide
It was a little hamlet in Roscommon
@Conor Hickey: brilliant.if no one else get s it i do.
@Conor Hickey: Happiness is a cigar called… Boyle. Nah, just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
Sorry to see 38 people loose their jobs, but in these health conscious times I fail to see how anyone couldn’t see that coming.
Smoking is thankfully on its way out. Hardly a shock that a business involved in it is in trouble. Sorry for the workers.
@Scundered: smoking is alive and well my friend despite what the government says
Look around as many smoking today as ever
This is terrible news for the employees and their families.
I wish them well, though that will be no use to them.
@David Murphey: but great news for everyone else. Good riddance. Purveyors of death.
You could hardly call a Manufacturing company pulling out of a country who’s cost base is twice what it should be °A Hugh shock°
@rory2u: what it Could be surely but doesn’t that argument apply to everyone, isn’t that what we have the IDA for, to direct money in ‘grants’ to help offset
Perhaps MMO’C can come to the rescue
The government are ensuring these job losses by taxing tobacco to the hilt so how is this a shock. Prepare for many more.
@Clare Maurer: most of what they manufacture is exported. Nothing to with the HSE
Too many having great craic out of these people losing their jobs. I live close to and often shop in Ballahadereen and I did not know there was a cigar factory there. I gave up smoking just six weeks ago, smoking is a choice, no matter how wrong it is. Heroin addicts get more support from this government than people trying to give up smoking. I did it under my own steam but two of my friends got a stern lecture and a promise of a call up phone call from The HSE which never happened.
@Jho Harris: well done.I’m off the smokes eight years. I work in the HSE. They pay lip service to support but you do the hard work on your own. Stay with it. Life choice
@Paul Murphy: My sister also works for The HSE and both you and herself are unwittingly representing them but I appreciate your encouragement; thank you.
Mitchell o Connor will be as much use as an ashtray on a motorbike… he is only paying lip service to the workers…. anyway
So it’s okay to sell cancer in Roscommon even if s to a non Irish person are you for real
Maybe they might make,
E Cigars instead
@Des Doran: good idea however jumping from leaves to electronics would be totally different industry really.
The Roscommon reefer as it’s affectionately known, hand rolled on a maiden s thigh, i recommend the Ming mega chomp,. Now there’s a really great smoke,
Crikey. A full review of industries in this country should be done. Next we’ll be hearing about the phonograph, betamax, Vhs tape, telegraph and floppy disc factory closing down. Let’s get in ahead of that please.
The TD, surely his salary and pension is secure? Im sure we all hope it is ….
They are Havana bad day in roscommon.geddit!
Sad to see that these jobs have gone up in Smoke…..
(try the fish i’m here all week!)
The hse must be in tears
More and more people, are quitting smokes and sadly this is the result.
A huge jobs blow that could have been an awkward typo
“Dismayed “?
Such hypocrisy coming from an elected representative. People are dying from lung cancer every day as a direct result from smoking and he’s “dismayed”?
Cop on with yourself man!
Yes,There has to be a certain amount of sympathy for the workers losing their jobs but even THEY must have understood that this day would eventually come given the campaign to stop people smoking,whether it’s cigarettes or cigars.Time to move on.
Perhaps they might convert to roll joints /canabis smokes instead- the new panacea for all ills, jobs for the new refugees etc
Well done most here on making a joke out of other people’s misery at losing their jobs. Well done lads/ladies, well done. Doubt many of you bunch of morons even work.
Perhaps they might convert to roll joints /canabis smokes instead- the new panacea for all ills, jobs for the new refugees etc -now where the hell is Ming
If only e- cigar an option?
Smoking kills every second smoker
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