Trump is a cunt.
Putin is a worse cunt
Chinese…not a great bunch of lads
Ursula von der Leyen and the EU ignoring genocide in Gaza
Starmer okay with starving Palestinians and turning off their electric
Sure you wouldn’t know who to be up for!!!
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It’s been a massive issue for hospitality, retail and construction industries that people have been leaving those industries for better wages, better job security, more regular and structured working hours, a cleaner job and no requirement to deal with general public…
A no brainer for a lot of people on or just below the average wage…
Regeneron Cook J+J Analog and Stryker are absolutely full of chippys/brickies/plumbers and sparkies in Limerick.All went in there to work after the bust in 08 and have no intention of leaving.They get paid every week,have a pension and share options.Also get up to 26/7/8 days holidays a year with plenty of OT if they want.Throw a few cash nixers on top and they are doing better than they ever were,with no headaches.
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Ya 100%
No brainer for them
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I know a few that have left also.
Didn’t like the shift work.
No family life.
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That is also true. A 12 hour shift in the Limerick pharma plants is a proper 12 hours work.
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Pal of mine really struggles with that as an electrical engineer. Trying to juggle family with Yank superiors breathing down his neck, tying up every woken moment seems an ongoing saga.
Could always be worse tho i suppose.
A young man’s game for sure.
Best years of your life then gone in a puff.
This is true, but their American counterparts have none of the EU protection and far far fewer perks, and little if any job security.
I don’t know why folk are surprised that only 20% of folk want to work in a factory. I’m surprised it’s that high if anything, and that seems about right. Did more than 20% of the workforce ever work in factories? Doubtful.
The US basically stole Gods own country from the native folk, and within 200 years have fcucked it up beyond belief. AI couldn’t have done a much better job. Plastics, poisons, pollutants, strip malls, sprawl, butchery of habitat, it’s really quite remarkable.
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When I was growing up the breakdown of employment was pretty simple. 30% in agriculture, 30% in services, 30% in industry and 10% unemployed.
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Trump going back on his word here also.
https://www.rte.ie/news/environment/2025/0417/1508120-trump-admin-habitat/
30% in industry, would even half that be factory floor?
There was an awful lot of factories in the country in those days, particularly before we joined the EU. Dev was a great man for setting up the native industries and protecting them with tariffs.
No it’s not,it’s actually child’s play compared to working out on a site which is why none of those ex builders will ever leave.I know a good few lads in there and they do be laughing at the lads who never worked anywhere else pissing and moaning about how hard it is 
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Still I doubt 20% of the workforce were on the factory floor (I’m only very rough guessing though and could easily be wrong).
I’d say there were huge numbers employed in factories in the cities (excluding Galway). In Waterford out of a population of 40,000 in 1970 there were 4,000 alone working in the Crystal factory. There was a jute factory, a paper mills, Clover Meats, a chipboard factory all of which were big employers on top of the Industrial Estate where thousands more worked. Cork had huge factories all along the port, Ford and Dunlop and so on. In those days factories were very labour intensive.
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Where did the Navy fit into them buckets
The entire Irish naval fleet would have fitted into an actual bucket at one time
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Why was it excluding Galway? I always thought that seems a less ‘working class’ type of place than the other big towns/cities…