Finance and pharma sectors create 75 jobs

THE financial services sector has been given a much-needed boost with the announcement of 50 jobs.

US-based software firm Fi-Tek revealed the positions would be created over the next five years in its new European headquarters and customer support operation in Dublin.

Meanwhile, Taoiseach Brian Cowen officially opened a Japanese pharmaceutical equipment company in his home county, creating 25 jobs. He said Freund Pharmatec’s new European hub, in Tullamore, Co Offaly, showed Ireland was open for business for foreign investment.