Re: Dell job cuts..wider imnplications
I think it's more than likely that Dell in Limerick and Seagate in Derry will both be gone in 5 years.
Both have opened sister plants in lower cost economies that do the same thing.
The same can be said for major employers in Wicklow, Cork and Galway. Most of the large IDA industrial estates around Dublin are empty or those multinationals that are left have skeleton staffs that just about keep the plant open. Drive into any of the estates around Blanchardstown and you will see huge plants with parking for a few hundred cars but a few dozen cars parked outside. Citywest only has one or two companies that actually manufacture anymore. Athlone, Galway, Waterford, Cork, Limerick, Shannon; it's all the same. We had our chance to build a world-class economy and we blew it, we blew it big style, and we only have ourselves to blame.