The day shift has been called to a mass meeting in the canteen at 6.30pm, where the managing director Mr Ron Klaas, simply told them... that the product could be produced far more cheaply in the Far East.
How workers were told of the closure of the Seagate factory in Clonmel County Tipperary with the loss of 1,400 jobs. Thursday 11 December.
A significant step in the search for freedom and justice in our country.
Gerry Adams at Downing Street where he met Tony Blair last Thursday.
The prisoner went missing around lunchtime, but prison staff did not notice his absence until early evening.
Apparently he was not eligible for Christmas leave.
Deaglán De Breadún writing in the Irish Times on the escape of Liam Averill from Long Kesh.
Good luck to him.
Gerry Adams's message to Long Kesh escaper Liam Averill.
He's giving Tony Blair the two fingers, but the government is as much to blame as the IRA for the escape. It is typical Adams. The brazeness is unbelievable.
Ian Paisley Jnr of the DUP in reply to Adams's comments.
McGuinness is a hothead and Kelly is no genius and the two of them went over the top.
unnamed unionist talks participant on Sinn Féin's refusal to accept a pro-union agenda.
Restrictions on the right to silence, combined with longer detention periods, is a sure-fire recipe for a number of wrongful convictions that will eventually damage confidence in the justice system, just as they did in Britain.
The ICCL on new measures to combat crime. Ireland On Sunday, 14 December.
Tony Blair will have to take a lead in pointing out that the tide is coming in. Canute is no guide for the future.
Tim Pat Coogan on the unionists' need to cut a deal. Ireland On Sunday, 14 December.
It there are those in Merrion St who might be misled into thinking that articles Two and Three are somehow only a bargaining point with David Trimble and succour with his problems, they are playing with - not to put to fine a point on it - Semtex.
Tom McGurk, Sunday Business Post, 14 December.
To be honest, though they share many of their views, not even the Ku Klux Klan behave like Orangemen anymore.
Only British football thugs, lager louts and the National Front do and every decent person in
Britain wants to disown them.
Brian Feeney writing in the Irish News, Wednesday 17 December.
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