PayPal confirms 1,000 Dundalk jobs

Online payments company PayPal today announced the creation of 1,000 jobs in Dundalk over the next four years with the development of a new European Operations Centre.

The new Dundalk operation, set to open in July of this year, will be the third Irish site for PayPal and its parent eBay. The company already has a 1,350-strong workforce at its European headquarters in Blanchardstown, west Dublin,.