EU fund to help former Dell staff creates 250 jobs

AN EU fund allocated to Ireland for the first time has resulted in 250 jobs being created by workers affected by the closure of Dell’s manufacturing operation in Limerick in January 2009.

Up to 1,900 Dell workers and a further 7,000 working in supply companies lost their jobs.

The new jobs have been created in firms set up with the support of enterprise boards through funding from the European Globalisation Fund (EGF), the first time such funding has been made available in Ireland.