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An announcement is expected on the future of Dell’s manufacturing facility in Limerick on Thursday.

It is expected that Dell is going to announce that manufacturing will be moved from the Raheen campus to their new plant at Lodz in Poland. , putting an estimated 2,000 people out of work.

Dell’s public relations company have told the Irish Examiner that no statement will be made on the decision on Limerick until employees have been informed.

Irish Examiner story.

After getting a feel for sharing her opinions online through our very forum, Ballababe has created her own blog, BB’s Story.

This is a personal blog so anything can be expected.

Ballababe is 27, single and from Limerick City.

BB’s Story will be added to our list of local bloggers. If you have a blog from or related to Limerick City or County then send us a link editors@limerickblogger.org

The homeware chain Tile Market is to lay off all of it’s staff, including those at their Ballysimon Road outlet after the company was put into voluntary liquidation.

Staff were informed yesterday in a letter from the company director Jim McMullen.

In the letter Mr. McMullen told staff that due to the current financial situation, the company was no longer in a position to continue the employment of staff, and that their contracts would be terminated with immediate effect.  Staff will only receive statutory redundancy as the company is unable to offer a redundancy package.

“Due to the company’s financial difficulties, the company is unable to make payments to you relating to any monies that you may be entitled to due to the termination of your employment.”

As Tile Market in the republic is operated by a different company to that in the north of Ireland, stores accross the border are unaffected by the liquidation.

Three teenagers have been killed and two others were hospitalised with serious injuries following a single vehicle accident near Nenagh, County Tipperary.

The three dead teenagers were named as Stuart Donnellan (14) Paraic Bourke (16) and Adrian O’Brien (17).  All three were from the Nenagh area.  Two died at the scene and one died later in hospital.

A 15 year old boy and a 16 year old girl were taken to the Midwestern Regional hospital in Limerick to have what is described as serious injuries treated.

The crash happened at approximately 1930 hrs on the Nenagh to Dolla road when the car they were travelling in went off the road and struck a tree.  The road was closed for several hours while Gardai carried out investigations into the crash.

Gardai are asking anyone with any information on the incident to come forward.

The release of state records under the 30 year rule revealed that a Limerick family turned down the President’s Centenarian Bounty because they were worried that if their mother found out she was 100, it might damage her health.

The woman was under the belief that she was 93, but was infact approaching 100 when the department of Social Welfare contacted the family to make arrangements for the payment.

Records show that the daughter of the woman told the Social Welfare officer that if her mother found out that she was actually 100 years old, it would be detramental to her health.

The welfare officer gave the daughter more time to think about accepting the £50 pound bounty but still rejected it, however she later accepted it on behalf of her mother.

Today, the Centenarians bounty is worth €2,450 and is given as a gift from the President to anyone who reaches the age of 100.  Every year after that they receive a special medal, the design of which is different every year.

And finally at Number 1

Did you wait up until Oh My God o’clock to see Munster bring home the Heineken Cup again.

Tippryan did, as did hundreds more.