Workers visibly shaken by news

ALTHOUGH the omens were bad for some time, Dell workers were visibly shaken by the scale of the job losses announced yesterday.

Daniel Higgins, aged 27 and his girlfriend Marie Daly, aged 23, were planning to get engaged and settle down together.

“Everything in our lives has now to be put back, maybe years,” Daniel said. “There is nothing job-wise out there. I still live at home in Rosbrien, and by the looks of things that’s the way it will be for some time as I cannot go and try and get a mortgage. I have a car loan which has to be paid off.”