REDUNDANCIES involving all 477 workers at the Limerick RR Donnelly plant (formerly known as Banta) will commence next month.

A PRINT company employing people with disabilities is the latest casualty of the Dell decision to shed 1,900 jobs in Limerick.

IT is increasingly difficult to remain composed, or to even want to, as the behaviour of a voracious, immoral and appalling coterie of bankers forces our government to take another do-or-die gamble with taxpayers’ funds.

THE Dell closure is set to claim another 600 Limerick jobs with an announcement expected in days from one of the computer company’s major service providers.

SCORES of companies throughout the mid-west are already preparing to close up shop with Dell contracts drying up over coming months.

THE head of the Industrial Development Authority (IDA) last night downplayed comments by Defence Minister Willie O’Dea that the organisation is talking to Dell in relation to up to 750 alternative jobs being created at the Limerick plant.

The Government is to offer computer giant Dell a multi-million euro incentive package to create 750 new jobs after the company today confirmed plans to lay off 1,900 workers.

LIMERICK has been hit with more job losses following huge lay-offs at Dell.

The loss of 65 jobs at Banta Global Turnkey in Limerick is being linked to ongoing speculation over one of the city’s largest employers.

A COMPANY in a Cork unemployment blackspot is to shed up to 200 jobs (almost two-thirds of its workforce) early next year.

Brian O’Mahony, Chief Business Correspondent

Banta Global Turnkey announced that it is supporting the European rollout of Microsoft Windows XP with the production of almost 500,000 units of the product, due to be launched on 25th October.