AN American-owned financial services group which already employs over 400 in Dublin is to bring 250 jobs to Waterford over the next two to five years.

MEATH and Wexford are in for a jobs boost with an American financial services company planning to create 500 new jobs in the counties, but the employment situation in Galway is not so bright.

A PLANT in Naas, Co Kildare, is to cut 245 jobs, staff were told yesterday.

THE brain drain out of the South East to larger hubs such as Dublin means large, hi-tech multinationals locating in Waterford often have to look further afield for staff, the IDA says.