O'Neill's successes and failures
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- Created on: 11-01-19 16:27
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- O'Neill's Successes and Failures
- A new airport was under development
- Over 35,000 new jobs were created
- Construction of a motorway began
- A number of big multinational firms like Michelin and DuPont opened factories in NI
- An oil refinery opened in Belfast
- Links with the Republic led to an agreement on the supply from the south
- Financial assistance had to be given to shipbuilders Harland & Wolff to keep it afloat
- Several companies even refused government grants to open factories West of the Bann, seeing the area as too remote from their export markets
- In the West employment was over 12.5%
- Only 16 of the 111 new factories built were in Tyrone, Derry and Fermanagh
- Unemployment averaged between 7-8%
- Over 20,000 jobs were lost
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