Careers and Jobs

Seven companies in Limerick and five companies in Galway are to create more than 200 jobs in the regions.

The seven companies in Limerick currently employ 42 and will create an additional 115 over the next 3 years. The firms include; You Book In, Crescent Diagnostics, Broker Episensor, Kneat Solutions, Stokes Bio and Biotechnology Solutions.

The five firms in Galway currently employ 21 and will add another 55 new jobs to this figure. The companies in Galway include; Chipright, TradeCert, Digital Services, Gaelstorm Software Solutions and Embricon.

The Minister of Enterprise, Trade and Employment Micheal Martin did not do his figure before this announcement as 115 + 55 = 170. But we will let him off as he has other things on his mind!!

Looks like the Northies are robbing our jobs again.

Kingspan has announced that it has created 40 new jobs in Newry as a result of a 6m euro investment by the groups Environmental & Renewables subsidiary.

Looks like it is all positive news for Newry at the minute. Newry has City status, Sainsbury’s (cheap shopping), 40 new jobs and even David McWilliams is writing about the town (I mean City) in today’s Independent.

What does the south get?

We get an announcement that NEW start up companies will create 800 new jobs over the next 3 years. This is on top of the 600 created by these companies so far. There are two ways you can look at this announcement.

Negative: Micheal Martin has nothing else positive to say and need some spin to deflect all the negative job loss announcements. I mean come on!! This would not have even made the papers two years ago.

Positive: This is great news for the Economy as we are breaking from the reliance of US multinationals. They created the Celtic Tiger and now these budding entrepreneurs are creating the Eccentric Tiger. Hey got to get a new name in before McWilliams does. Anyway don’t they always say that entrepreneurs are a bit different?