EU offers €2.6m for TalkTalk workers

A total of €2.6m has been offered to the Government by the EU to help put 432 redundant workers from call centre, TalkTalk, back to work.

The sum brings the total money from the EU’s globalisation fund to Ireland to €60.6m over the past three years for over 10,000 workers laid off from businesses and construction sites.

The Waterford-based call centre shut down last year when the firm transferred the business to three plants outside the EU, leaving 592 people without work.