South east gets IDA jobs Tsar

One of the country’s unemployment blackspots is to have its own jobs tsar after the Government’s decision to appoint a regional manager to the area.

Waterford City and the wider southeast have suffered from a number of major job losses in recent years, such as those at Waterford Crystal and TalkTalk, and calls for a dedicated IDA Ireland regional boss have been answered with the deployment of the agency’s former director of Europe to the area.

Anne-Marie Tierney-Le Roux will have responsibility for counties Waterford, Kilkenny, Wexford, Carlow, and south Tipperary as regional manager. Based in Waterford, her main brief is to market the region to clients and work with “global operations teams” in winning investment for the southeast.