250 jobs created at IT firm
Richard Bruton was speaking in Ballincollig, Co Cork, as the Silicon Valley-headquartered virtualisation and cloud technology firm announced a major expansion of its Irish operations.
It follows a string of devastating job losses, including almost 600 jobs at Talk Talk in Waterford, and the release yesterday of CSO figures showing the number of people at work here in the second quarter was down 37,800 (2%) compared with the same period last year