217 workers axed as jobs crisis deepens

MORE THAN 100 workers at Diamond Engineering Ltd in Limerick and a further 100 in Dublin are destined to join the ranks of the unemployed.

The Blanchardstown-based electronics company Teradyne is to let 100 workers go over the next three to six months. The Dublin company’s vice president of corporate relations, Tom Newman, confirmed the job losses yesterday.

The 117 job losses in Kilmallock bring to more than 13,000 the number of people laid off in the past seven weeks.