Our economic crisis - Unity is now essential

WHAT a dispiriting, challenging and worrying week it’s been.

On Thursday the long-feared news about Dell was confirmed; 1,900 life-blood jobs were “migrating” to Poland and anything up to 8,000 downstream jobs are in jeopardy. Clouds are gathering too over the Dell marketing and support jobs in Dublin.

Earlier in the week headlines focussed on Waterford Crystal, Tara Mines or Chartbusters. The loss of a major contract put SR Technics’ 1,200 workers at Dublin airport in the firing line yesterday.