150 jobs at IrishTV with new channel

Up to 150 jobs are to be created as Ireland’s first ever international satellite television channel, IrishTV, is launched.

Broadcasting 24 hours a day, the €15m project will see each county guaranteed an half an hour of weekly TV coverage as part of a County Matters show.

According to co-founders Máiréad Ní Mhaoilchiaráin and Pierce O’Reilly, the project will “focus on bringing rural Ireland to a global audience”. Its chairman, is Mayo-born multi-millionaire John Griffin, who recently sold Britain’s largest minicab service, Addison Lee, for €360m,