<a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/articles/postComment/gb/inquirer/news/2008/10/13/dell-departure-decimate">Hello</a>

given dell doesnt have to pay back any of the 75,000,000 eurobucks the irish government so kindly gave them, where as in poland and the like they do have to, well errrrrrrrrrrrr, unless the irish chuck some more good money after bad at these shisters im afraid no ammount of kissin the blarny stone is gonna save the leprachauns employed by dell O_o when oh when are the irish overlords gonna learn to stop giving away cash to these sort of firms without any conditions attatched ???? O_o

Nobody is manifacturing notebooks or pcs in Europe or US, they are just assembling parts from China. Please use the word manifacturing with care :-(

I worked for Dell ages ago. When I was there these deals would involve being given a large parcel of land and a building for free as well as many years of tax free operation all out of the public purse as the price for moving in. Things would go well for the first three years. Then things would be scaled back, managers would be given impossible productivity targets and be turfed for not meeting them, workers would be squeezed and then the inevitable layoffs. But in the end there was always the building and the land,..... If those Limerick politicians had some brains they would do a little investigating of the previous deals including the ones made with Dell's proxies like Solectron or even Stream before they were bought up. Wouldn't it be illegal to start a business with the implicit plan to profit from taking land and tax money out of the public coffers? Perhaps it would just make the politicians who made the deal rather stupid. Love, Nemo