"OUTRAGE FROM LIBERTY WORKERS"

One of the many letters coming in today. 

OUR SYMPATHIES MUST LIE WITH THOSE WHO ARE LOSING THEIR JOBS

It is extremely sad and distressing to hear of the lay-offs by Liberty Mutual Insurance in Blanchardstown, Cavan and Enniskillen.  The unfortunate employees deserve our sympathy. 

Quinn Insurance, as it was, has now gone from about 2,700 employees to not much more than one-third of that, and some of those will soon be contracted out to another business.  But the principal blame does not lie with Liberty.  It lies with those who first undermined that business. Step forward and explain yourselves now Alan Dukes, Murdock McKillop, Mike Anysley, Matthew Elderfield and Michael Noonan, the six incompetents who created the circumstances which produced this outcome   None of you had the foresight to see the potential for failure from your actions, nor the competence to do what should have been done.  So you sold the business and its staff for €1, to an organisation with no interest in preserving jobs in Ireland.  You should be ashamed of themselves, all six of you.

By comparison, Sean Quinn never laid off staff in his forty years in business – not even once.

It is so very annoying to hear the whingeing of politicians on Northern Sound, over the last few hours.  But they did f-all to ensure that there would be no lay-offs.  Joe O’Reilly and Brendan Smith were on Northern Sound at lunch time.  We have still to hear from Heather Humphries, or Caoimhghín Ó Caolain and Sean Conlan, but presumably there will be more crocodile tears from them.  And then I guess Mary Lou and Pearse (pain-in-the arse) Doherty will have their say too.  So will Enda and Richard Bruton, as well as Michael Noonan and Brendan Howlin.  But they will do feck all for the employees.  The Dublin ones might get jobs.  The others have no chance of a job near home.  The boat or the plane, or life on the dole, for them.  And loads of sympathy, but no jobs.

By the way, where was the union, when all this was happening?  They wanted rid of Quinn for years.  He created jobs.  They were happy to see those jobs transfer to others who would destroy them. Not much use to the staff being laid off now.

And now I see from the papers that Jimmy and Donal want to do the same in Derrylin or Ballyconnell, or anywhere else they can get in.  I just hope the employees realise who creates jobs and who destroys them.  But one thing is certain, when the jobs go, none of those twits will create replacements.

It’s just sad beyond belief.