Number employed at €25m centre could reach 220

UP to 220 people could yet be employed at the €25 million House of Waterford Crystal visitor and manufacturing centre which was officially opened yesterday.

Sections of the south-eastern capital were closed to traffic yesterday as the city at large celebrated the “rebirth” of Waterford Crystal.

Up to 80 full time and 33 part-time jobs have been created at the city centre site where top-end crystal products are being made at a former derelict ESB premises.