Donegal jobs crisis needs new approach

WOULD the last worker leaving Donegal please turn off the lights?

Seldom has the war-time adage been more poignant than in the north-west where people are reeling after yesterday’s shock news of yet another factory closure in a seemingly endless haemorrhage of jobs from the region.

Ominously, with Ireland’s house building programme down for the first time in more than a decade, and with the oil crisis likely to get worse, this bleak scenario may be replicated in other vulnerable parts of the country.