SR Technics announce closure of Dublin operations - 1,135 jobs to go

[Big Bobo]

The sooner a general election is called the better. Ireland needs a radical change of economic policy and it will never take place with those goons in government.

[JollyRedGiant]

Just the further unwinding of the stupid decision to privatise Aer Lingus for no valid reason...strategic or financial. It is the loss of the Aer Lingus contracts that doomed SR Technics.
The government should, at least, have received assurances that maintenance of Aer Lingus planes would continue at SR Technics post-privatisation. What exactly is the point of the 25% stake in Aer Lingus if the government are allowing Aer Lingus to effectively blow 1,135 jobs out of the water? This debacle alone should be enough to cause the government to fall...

You are absolutely spot-on.

This is a direct result of the privatisation of Aer Lingus (and Team Are Lingus in the past) - two companies privatised - thousands of jobs going down the tubes.

[politicaldonations]

The union headbangers and public sector workers dont know how lucky they are even if they end up taking 30% cuts in pay.