A manufacturing firm is to close with the loss of 180 jobs in Tallaght, West Dublin.
APW Enclosure announced it is to halt production at its Airton Road plant in June and would not reopen.
Staff were told today that 140 permanent staff and 40 temporary positions would be lost in the summer.
An APW spokesman said the company would begin talks with the ATGWU to agree redundancy packages for workers at the Dublin plant.
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"Despite the best efforts of management and the workforce the Dublin site has continued to incur losses over the past three years," he said.
The company which has been based in the Tallaght area for the last five years makes full steel metal fabric sheets and carries out testing.