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20/04/2007
Printing jobs boost for Newry
Independent News and Media newspaper group has announced it is creating 60 jobs at a new printing press in Newry.
The plant will cost £20 million and more than 30 newspaper titles including the Mirror, the News of the World and the Daily Express are printed by the company.
It was opened by chief executive Sir Anthony O’Reilly and former MP of the area Seamus Mallon.
The Belfast Telegraph, which is owned by the Independent group, will continue to be printed in Belfast, on recently upgraded presses.
Independent News and Media has its main interests in Ireland, as well as offices in the UK, Australia, India, New Zealand and South Africa.
More than 175 newspaper and magazine titles are printed weekly.
(JM/KMcA)
The plant will cost £20 million and more than 30 newspaper titles including the Mirror, the News of the World and the Daily Express are printed by the company.
It was opened by chief executive Sir Anthony O’Reilly and former MP of the area Seamus Mallon.
The Belfast Telegraph, which is owned by the Independent group, will continue to be printed in Belfast, on recently upgraded presses.
Independent News and Media has its main interests in Ireland, as well as offices in the UK, Australia, India, New Zealand and South Africa.
More than 175 newspaper and magazine titles are printed weekly.
(JM/KMcA)
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