{"id":248881,"date":"2026-01-17T03:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T03:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/248881\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T03:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T03:00:11","slug":"major-economic-boost-has-been-announced-for-co-longford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/248881\/","title":{"rendered":"Major economic boost has been announced for Co. Longford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A major economic boost for Longford has been announced. US-based Technimark has been granted planning permission to create up to 120 new jobs in the region. Technimark is a multinational specialising in precision-made plastic components and packaging for sectors including healthcare. The new employment opportunities will be an expansion to the existing 147 staff.<\/p>\n<p>It plans to develop a major new facility at the former Eir depot in Templemichael Business Park. The company purchased the site from Longford County Council and is seeking to establish a three-storey production hub. According to planning documents, the proposed development would include a 9,545 square metre moulding plant designed to support the production of injection-moulded medical devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major economic boost for Longford has been announced. US-based Technimark has been granted planning permission to create&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-248881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}