{"id":338956,"date":"2026-03-10T15:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T15:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/338956\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T15:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T15:23:09","slug":"up-to-45-jobs-at-risk-in-kilkenny-as-liquidator-appointed-to-major-vegetable-producer-its-a-sad-day-for-the-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/338956\/","title":{"rendered":"Up to 45 jobs at risk in Kilkenny as liquidator appointed to major vegetable producer \u2013 \u2018It\u2019s a sad day for the community\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">It\u2019s understood a provisional liquidator has been appointed to Hughes Agriculture &amp; Farming Limited in Kells, Co Kilkenny\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hughes Agriculture &amp; Farming Limited. Photo credit: Hughes Farming via Facebook\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/d48ea6e6-eb33-43e8-8121-7b5741219ead.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Hughes Agriculture &amp; Farming Limited. Photo credit: Hughes Farming via Facebook<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Over 40 employees at a farm in Co Kilkenny are facing an uncertain future following news that their jobs may be a risk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It\u2019s understood that family-run Hughes Agriculture &amp; Farming Limited in Kells, Co Kilkenny held a meeting with their employees on Monday evening stating that production at the farm was to cease with up to 45 jobs subsequently at risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s understood a provisional liquidator has been appointed to Hughes Agriculture &amp; Farming Limited in Kells, Co Kilkenny&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7499,72,61,60],"class_list":["post-338956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-aisling-bolton-dowling","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338956","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=338956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}