Local TD Dinny McGinley after government funding was announce for the Largo plant two years ago
LARGO Foods, the company which closed its crisp factory in Gaoth Dobhair with the loss of 142 jobs, has promised to re-pay grant money to Údarás na Gaeltachta.
The company was given €600,000 by the organisation two years ago.
Maurice Hickey, the chief executive of Largo, said any monies due back to the semi-state organisation would be paid.
The money was used to buy new machinery which will now be transferred to Ashbourne in Co Meath where the makers of Tayto and Hunky Dorys has 360 other employees.
Seventy Donegal workers – of the 142 facing redundancy – are being offered positions in Meath.
It’s thought that up to 15 of them will decide to move.
But for employees with young families and mortgaged homes in west Donegal, such a move may prove impossible.
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