The cash is aimed at helping the redundant workers find new jobs in the wake of the closure of the Limerick plant, which had made Dell Ireland's leading exporter, as the global crisis shattered the Celtic Tiger economy.


Nonsense, the recession only increased the pace of decline in the Irish economy. The growth in employment started in the 1970's when the Irish were very pro business. Tax credits, state funded worker training and 5% corporate tax rates. All there have been curbed. Now the firms choice is to retool their old Irish facilities without state help or move to Eastern Europe where the company will get Tax Credits, free employee training and low corporate taxes. The EU is not loosing jobs they are just moving. They now have the U.S. system. We have states doing stupid things to compete with each other for jobs Europe has member nations doing the same thing.

It is a mistake to think businessmen are more immoral than politicians!
Keynes, 1937