DELL: AFTERSHOCK!!!

RTÉ presents a week-long series of television programmes which capture where we've come from over the last 18 months, take stock of where we are now and try to identify ways in which we as a nation can get Ireland from crisis to recovery.

"Life After Dell" on RTE will air on RTE1 Television on Wednesday May 12th at 9.35pm. The program charts the past 12 months for four different families following the announcement of their redundancy at the Dell plant in Limerick. Read More.

Speakers Corner in the White House.

For those of you who were interested in going to last weeks speakers corner in the White house this week; Councillor Seamus Healy of the Clonmel based "Workers & Unemployed Action Group" is the lead speaker tonight at the "Speakers Corner" in the White House at 9pm.

Seamus is both a community activist and a former member of Dail Eireann.

Seamus will elaborate on his motivation and experiences in setting up and developing the "Workers & Unemployed Action Group".

Reminder about Special Olympics

SPECIAL OLYMPICS - National Fundraising Day

As you know the Games are coming to Limerick in less than 60 days, if you have volunteered for these Games you will be happy to know the Limerick Games office is in full swing and busy assigning volunteers to their roles. Volunteers who attended one of our Recruitment sessions will be given priority when assigning roles but either way everyone who has registered will hear from us by the end of April.

Prior to the Games Special Olympics Ireland is holding their All Ireland Collection Day on Friday April 23rd, this is the organisation’s one major fundraising event for 2010 and our target for Limerick is €50,000 – we can only achieve this if we have lots of volunteers helping us on the day.

Unfortunately we are currently 150 people short of the volunteers required to run this Day Successfully.

If you are in a position to give even a couple of hours that would be a fantastic help and make the world of difference to Special Olympics, please contact Darragh Madden at darragh.madden@specialolympics.ie or on 061-492817/ 085-7656630 with

· your name,

· contact number

· what time you are available

Please join our most extraordinary team!More

WE EXTEND OUR SYMPATHY TO OUR POLISH COLLEAGUES

The Dell Redundant Workers Association would like to express our Deepest Sympathy to our Polish colleagues & to the people of Poland for your great loss.

Our prayers & support are with you in these difficult & tragic circumstances.

Your Country, Your Call

Here's an opportunity to PLAY YOUR PART in the re-emergence of YOUR COUNTRY using your personal ideas and in the process win a substantial sum of money to use as seed capital for your business idea. Dr Martin McAleese husband of the President Mary McAleese has initiated a program to enable you to help Ireland emerge from the black hole we find ourselves in. This is true patriotism at work and you do not have to place your life on the line. NO GUNS only ROSES.

Your Country, Your Call is a competition to ignite imaginations and inspire thinking. The goal is to pick two truly transformational proposals so big that, when implemented, could secure prosperity and jobs for Ireland.MORE

Calleary welcomes substantial progress in EGF supports for former DELL workers

In a press release from The Dept of Enerprise,Trad & Employment Minister Dara Calleary gave a broad welcome for the new EGF Steering Committe which held it's inaugural meeting in the Granary this Tuesday. More