The announcement of the cutting of 300 jobs at a Guinness plant in Dundalk came as a huge shock to people living in the region. Sinn Féin Louth County Councillor Arthur Morgan put the most apt context on the weekend disclosure. He described the media reports of Guinness announcing ``the loss'' of 300 jobs as ``misleading public relations gloss on a coldly calculated corporate decision by management. These jobs have not been lost or mislaid - they have been axed''. Free article