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AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURER BOMBARDIER is selling its Belfast operation, it announced today.
The company employees 3,600 people across several locations in Northern Ireland. In a statement, it said the move was part of the “strategic formation of Bombardier Aviation, consolidating all aerospace assets into a single, streamlined and fully integrated business”.
The firm said it will now sell both its Belfast and Morocco aerostructure businesses. Bombardier said it is committed to finding “the right buyer” and will work closely with employees and unions through any future transition period.
“There are no new workforce announcements as a result of this decision.
“But our management team will continue to drive ongoing transformation initiatives to improve productivity and increase our competitiveness, to give more weight to our unique value proposition to potential buyers.”
Last year the company announced it was cutting 5,000 jobs across its global operations and later announced its intention to cut a further 490 jobs from its Northern Ireland operations.
Susan Fitzgerald from Unite said the trade union will be closely watching interested parties in the sale.
She said if they see “rogue elements” or companies who intend to asset-strip or “take a blade” to the workforce, the union “will cause hell”.
DUP leader Arlene Foster said the announcement of the intention to sell “will be unsettling for staff”.
“I have spoken today with Michael Ryan from Bombardier. It is welcome that there have been no workforce implications in relation to this announcement and both staff and the company can be assured of any support locally or in London which might assist them at this time,” she said.
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The customers should have killed the raider before Gardai arrived. Self defence… No prosecution. Would have saved us all the expense of a trial and his hotel, Ooops mean prison stay.
But fair play to them, brave to do what they did
Wouldn’t agree with the “killed” but beaten the daylights out of him, yes. Agree with the ‘hotel’ comment; pure luxury in there, free of charge – madness.
Ever in jail ?
Aaaamed robbuz raid the maaaaash house baaaa on the maaaaash road!!!! Call the gaaaaaads
Made me smile
Was it in Drogheda or Boston?
They detained them, so they did
Has to be ‘aah’ for Boston! ;)
Quality!
Dey moost of haaad no get awaaaay Kaaa, the plan wos to fleeee to Toooookey
Very brave customers. A family member was working on the night and if it wasnt for these customers he could have been seriously injured. Thank you to them.
lol , dont get in the way of an Irishman and his booze. If it had been a post office they wouldnt have bothered trying to stop it
Law abiding citizens…should have went on a $cumbag killing spree
Problem is in Drogheda, where would you stop?
Should we just hand these crims a jar of vaseline and bend over Patrick… would that make you and your do-gooder ilk happy?
We already pay their social welfare, free legal aid, prison luxury, hospital fees, free travel pass… etc…
Silly robbers could have picked a safer town to rob a pub like bagdad or somewhere
Well done to the customers. to very smart robbers going I to a pub at that hour. Probably a few around. I know some rural pubs in north Mayo and Connemara, where if this happened I don’t think those boys would ever be heard of again. There would be no phone call to the Gardai
We’ll done to the customers. Sadly more and more people in drogheda area are having too taking the law into their own hands. There should be more police out and about! Cut the dole not the police budget!
At a pub marsh road ??
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Ps – pub is called the marsh house
Typo fixed – you’re welcome
Mac do you see the button send a tip/correction, that would be for you………
Tried that – typo wasn’t fixed
Wouldn’t of stopped me. Must of being some pussy robbing it.
You wanna use the word have instead there you thick hill billy nob.
Paddy’s drunk – making no sense
People like to blame the raider and that’s how they are conditioned but seriously its a social problem and it’s getting worse.
I as a member of society am to blame for the raiders foolish choices Patrick, therefore I am sorry! Also, when you come back down to live on this planet let me know!
What??!
Patrick. What country has such a utopian society that crime and criminals are non existent? Please do tell so we may all go live there.
I agree with Patrick…….if i didnt get me dole last week I was seriously going to knock over some kid for his mobile phone….Its pretty shitty that your views are skewed towards the ‘journal type pubateers’ rather than young men that feel they have to go to such extreems to recieve some sort of attention……its the decrepid ageist state we live in.
Maybe you could get a job? It might reduce your thieving urges. Also can you leave some full stops for the rest of us
Btw; that was for Patrick. What is he on?!
There’s gonna be a hangin’!
Fair play to the customers. Hopefully the shitee that tried to rob the place gets what’s coming
21% of the population would support the robbers if there was a poll this morning.
Brutal lads….
Well, at.least the Gunman bought two rounds!
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