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SO, HAVE YOU ever dreamt about working with the loveable monster Henry Hugglemonster or the ever-caring Doc McStuffins?
Or maybe more of a classic like Peter Rabbit?
It could be your time.
The creators of the animated five-year-old Roarsville resident, the stuffed-animal healer and Beatrix Potter’s character are looking for about 70 people to join their ever-expanding Dublin team.
Opening its Smithfield studio today, Brown Bag Films has announced new positions will be available between now and 2018 (when it plans to have 255 employees on board).
As well as the Hugglemonster, DocMcStuffins and Peter Rabbit television series, the company works on multiple shows for Nickelodeon, CBeebies and Disney Junior. It is currently producing the CG adaptation of Richard Adams’s Watership Down for both Netflix and the BBC.
Set up in 1994, Brown Bag Films was acquired by North American studio 9 Story Media Group last year allowing for investment in a new studio and an ambitious recruitment drive. As well as its Dublin base, the firm has a 2D studio in Manchester and an office in LA.
However, its founders do not want to forget its beginnings.
“With an eight year history in Smithfield, we were keen to maintain our roots here,” said managing director Cathal Gaffney.
“Our new studio sets an incredibly high standard and is the perfect home for our outstanding creative and technical talent. This is a very exciting time to be working in the kids content business and we are currently recruiting for talent to work with us on exciting shows like Watership Down and Doc McStuffins,” he added.
According to 9 Story Media Group’s executive chairman Neil Court, the Smithfield site is “one of the most creatively driven and technically advanced studios in the world.
In one of her first gigs as the newly minted Jobs Minister, Mary Mitchell O’Connor welcomed the expansion this morning, calling Brown Bag Films a “great Irish success story”.
She was joined by IDA Ireland’s Martin Shanahan who noted that the company continues to draw international attention (it bagged three Emmys last year for Peter Rabbit, for instance).
“Ireland’s combination of creative and technical talent, and our love of storytelling and the visual arts makes it the perfect location from which to grow and develop global content,” he added.
See job listings here. (Current open positions include a string of technical roles, including a“hair and fur” specialist.)
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The Restaurant could be completely innocent so naming and shaming might not be a good idea.
@David Conroy: investigation first, then let loose.
It was nothing to do with extra onions and chilli sauce…
It’s bizarre that you didn’t mention that this investigation started after a bunch of people became seriously ill and one of them died after a party in the restaurant.
This article should be removed and rewritten
@Gareth Cooney: It’s probably the most unprofessional journalism I have ever seen.
@Fabio Dillon: I think the Journal need to hire new staff with proper qualifications in “Cut and Paste”, as well as the ability to embed tweets and create articles from them….!
They have to prove that the restaurant was responsible for the outbreak and caused the person’s death first.
@Oiche Fairy: Death? It didnt mention someone dying in the article only an outbreak of salmonella poisoning. Do you have info not reported? I know salmonella can be easily letal in the young and elderly.
@Cathal P Forde: Yes Cathal, it is big news in Swords.
@Pete Trevaskis:
in Swords? Is it not in Portmarnock?
@Pete Trevaskis: WOW you think they would have mentioned people having died. I think thats more important than a restauraunt being closed. I feel for the families of those who died and hope they get justice.
Lads the golf links is not in Skerries. You are paid to write articles. Proof read.
Name agus Shame
@Bingobango: they should name and shame.
Agree totally David C , as a chef im sure nobody got up one morning to cause anyone any harm, tragic for everyone involved, RIP That lady
@Fabio Dillon: Undercook white meat , i have heard no results announced by the EHO …unless you have information that is not public yet , as i said , no chef gets up in the morning to do anyone any harm as much as no one gets up to cause a car crash , im 35 years a chef and its the first time iv seen a food premises close ..i know it happens , the pub in question as far as i know has always had an excellent reputation for their food …
Skitt was Scat around North Dublin but they didn’t tell us where???
My poor Mam suffered a bad bout of food poisoning the morning after visiting one of the Chinese buffets in the north inner city a few weeks back.We both ate mostly the same stuff except she had the chicken curry which i avoided.
She was very ill for most of the next day.I heard a few stories about these buffets but i’ve never had a problem myself.I dont think my mam will be rushing for one of them any time soon.
@mark kenny: how do you eat that crap in the first place
A friend of mine has died after eating there
@Tony Ruth: very sorry about your friend may she rest in peace
So is this in Skerries or Portmarnock?
@Rui Firmino: The Widows in Portmarnock
@Rui Firmino: Portmarnock
@Martin MB Byrne: Why do they say it’s in Strand Road Skerries in the article then?
@Rui Firmino: never mind, they changed it now
They should have Gordon Ramsey on the case. Why don’t you give out the name of the restaurant?
@Vincent Duff: Probably legal reasons. Apparently the venue uses outside catering firm. But it is named in the commons on Lovin’ Dublin – https://lovindublin.com/news/north-dublin-pub-investigated-after-mother-died-of-suspected-food-poisoning-at-first-communion-meal
Burn it. Burn it all.
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