{"id":289514,"date":"2026-02-09T23:37:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T23:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/289514\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T23:37:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T23:37:53","slug":"minister-job-losses-at-kostal-show-ireland-must-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/289514\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister; Job losses at KOSTAL show Ireland must focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The approximately 140 job losses announced\u00a0at\u00a0KOSTAL in Abbeyfeale show that Ireland must focus on its manufacturing competitiveness.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s according to the minister for tourism and media, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oireachtas.ie\/en\/members\/member\/Patrick-O%27Donovan.D.2011-03-09\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick O&#8217;Donovan<\/a> from West Limerick.<\/p>\n<p>He was speaking in the wake of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/kostal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KOSTAL<\/a>&#8216;s announcement that it will move the production of on-board EV chargers from its Abbeyfeale plant to China, potentially in the last quarter of this year.<\/p>\n<p>Minister O&#8217;Donovan says companies have always\u00a0located their facilities in the most competitive economies.<\/p>\n<p>He says enterprise minister Peter Burke is focused on the fact that while Ireland excels at manufacturing, other countries can do it cheaper:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The approximately 140 job losses announced\u00a0at\u00a0KOSTAL in Abbeyfeale show that Ireland must focus on its manufacturing competitiveness. That&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60,138797],"class_list":["post-289514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-ireland-must-focus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289514","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=289514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}