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ONE HUNDRED JOBS will be created over the next five years in Clare.
Amax, a computing and data specialist, has opened its European manufacturing headquarters at Western Business Park in Shannon.
The new jobs will be in the areas of production, warehousing, finance and sales.
Jean Shih, President of AMAX, said the Irish facility “significantly expands our ability, capacity and network throughout the EMEA Europe (the Middle East and Africa) region to meet the demands of our customers”.
Minister for Business and Employment Ged Nash said today’s announcement is “fantastic news for Shannon and the greater Limerick and Clare area”.
Martin Shanahan, CEO of IDA Ireland also welcomed the announcement, saying:
There is huge growth potential in the whole ICT sector with demand from multiple industry spheres for cloud, big data applications and high performance computing. I see a bright future for this company here in Shannon.
In more good news on the jobs front, TransferMate Global Payments- a money transferring service – has announced that it will be taking on 25 people at their 24-hour call centre in Kilkenny.
The company, which has clients based in Europe, North America and Australia, hired 15 people in Ireland last year.
Managing Director Barry Dowling said the organisation’s continued growth is “dependent on having great staff and happy clients”.
“Our success to date has been based on people’s appetite to move from using the bank to secure cheaper deals on their foreign exchange payments. Companies now have a real alternative when it comes to making their foreign currency payments and despite having offices worldwide, some of our best people are here in Ireland.”
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Brave woman. Cowardly man.
5 years breaking stones would teach him that this is not a nice thing to do. I would give him a heavier hammer in all fairness. We are all to soft on this kind of low life…
@techman: I’d give him a hammer to his kneecaps. Far more likely to prevent recidivism than all the psychobabble he might get in jail.
It’s always best just to hand it over .. not worth risking your life for ..
Its an awful shame citizens here can’t carry tasers nor even pepper spray as they can in other countries where citizenry are not emasculated since 1972 by Irish governments terrified of what allowing them to arm themselves might lead to. A government afraid of its People rather than the other way around. Imagine bow that might help it to clean up its act not to mention allowing us to defend ourselves against non-political criminals too, including perhaps some of our own “guardians of the peace” if what Sgt McCabe says is true, and I for one believe him.
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