Bid to save ‘New Balance’, the sports footwear factory in Tralee, County Kerry.

The factory is due to close at the end of August with the loss of sixty jobs.

This is just one in a long line of factory closures that has turned Tralee into an unemployment blackspot.

Interview with Andrew McCarthy, Irish Transport and General Workers Union (ITGWU) Branch Secretary regarding the situation.

The reporter is Michael Walsh.

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