125 new jobs have this evening been announced for Clonmel, Co Tipperary. The jobs are being created at Flancare, a nationwide haulage, distribution and warehousing business.
The firm already employs 280 people in Clonmel and has additional warehousing in Longford and Dublin.
The Taoiseach Bertie Ahern announced the jobs and pointed out that just a decade ago, the company employed just ten people.