Start-up companies integral in creation of up to 600 jobs

THE country received some positive news yesterday with the announcement of almost 600 new jobs around the country, including 445 positions in 24 new start-up companies.

Those jobs, supported by the Government through Enterprise Ireland, were added to by the announcement of 70 new jobs at a new SuperValu in Mountmellick, Co Laois, and 65 jobs in two new Nando’s restaurants in Dublin.

The 445 jobs created in the second quarter of this year are in companies aided by Enterprise Ireland’s High Potential Start Ups programme and are located in Clare, Dublin, Wicklow, Waterford, Offaly, Cork and Kildare.