Staff ‘deeply shocked’ after News Corp signals closure of Kells print plant

Trade union to ask company to examine its decision to close the facility, which employs 59 people

The planned closure comes just two months after News UK and Ireland received approval to acquire the plant from Smurfit Kappa. Picture: Getty

Staff working at News UK & Ireland’s printing plant in Co Meath have been left “deeply shocked” by the company’s decision to close the facility just months after acquiring it.

Workers at the site will tomorrow meet with the publisher – which runs the Sun and the Sunday Times in Ireland and forms part of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp media empire – after it announced plans to outsource printing to third-party facilities around Ireland.

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