Multinational companies have paid thirty visits to sites in county Louth in the last 18 months.
That's according to new figures from the foreign investment agency in the Republic, IDA Ireland.
Dundalk had three vacant sites at the end of last year and there was one in Drogheda.
Figures show twenty visits to the border county last year and ten in the first six months of this year.
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