Give third-level places to redundant workers, Labour senator urges

VACANT third-level places should be filled by factory workers who are being made redundant in Donegal and Louth, it was claimed yesterday.

The closure of American pharmaceutical firm Hospira will leave 560 people without work in Donegal town and 250 will be made redundant at the Quantum Corporation electronics factory in Dundalk.

Labour Senator Joanna Tuffy said the workers should be offered the vacant course places in their local colleges, Letterkenny Institute of Technology and Dundalk Institute of Technology.