170 jobs to go under UPC cost-cutting plan

Telecoms company UPC Ireland is to shed as many as 170 jobs across its facilities as part of a cost-cutting programme.

The company’s Limerick base is to be worst hit by the restructuring plan with 70 employees expected to be made redundant.

UPC declined to confirm the exact number of staff that will be affected at its other centres, but it is understood Dublin will also see significant losses, with the remainder spread across its facilities in Cork, Galway, and Waterford.