IDA-backed firms to create 500 Irish jobs including the counties
Galway, Sligo, Kildare & Cork
HP Ireland managing director Martin Murphy above: said Ireland is competing with a lot of other countries to attract jobs.
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Three IDA Ireland-backed firms have announced the creation of a total of 485 new jobs at locations in Cork, Kildare, Galway and Sligo.
US technology giant HP is creating 150 software research and development positions over the next three years at its sites in Leixlip, Co Kildare and Galway. It is also hiring an additional 130 technical support staff in Kildare.
Abbott Pharmaceutical is to invest €85 million in its manufacturing facilities in Sligo which will support its pipeline of new drugs. The new plant will be completed in 2014 and will provide 175 new jobs.
The jobs will be added during the construction phase which will create another 150 temporary building jobs.
In Cork online games company Big Fish Games is to create 30 jobs with the expansion of a research and development centre which looks at how cloud technologies can be applied to gaming.
Speaking from New York, where he is attending the Invest in Ireland business forum hosted by former US president Bill Clinton, IDA Ireland chief executive Barry O’Leary described it as “an excellent day” and said the announcements would highlight to “US business leaders the many advantages of investing in Ireland”.
The new HP jobs would not have been secured without “a collaborative approach” with IDA Ireland, said HP Ireland managing director Martin Murphy.
“Foreign direct investment is a very competitive space at the moment,” said Mr Murphy. “We are competing with a lot of other countries to win jobs.”
The Book of Evidence was served today in Donegal’s worst ever crash case
The Book of Evidence has been served on a man charged with dangerous driving causing the deaths of eight men in Co Donegal in July 2010.
The seven young men who died in the crash in Inishowen were Eamon McDaid, 21, of Ballymagan, Buncrana; PJ McLaughlin, 21, of Burnfoot;Ciaran Sweeney, 19, of Ballyliffin; James McEleney, 23, of Clonmany;Mark McLaughlin, 21, of Fahan; Paul Doherty, 19, of Ballyliffin; Damien McLaughlin, 21, of Buncrana; and Hugh Friel, 66, of Clonmany.
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The Book of Evidence has been served on a 23-year-old Donegal man Shaun Kelly, of Hill Road, Buncrana, who is charged with dangerous driving causing the deaths of eight men near Buncrana, Co Donegal, in July 2010.
was served with the book of evidence at Buncrana District Court this morning but the case was adjourned until next month.
Mr Kelly’s solicitor asked that his client not be returned for trial to the Circuit Court at this point as he was seeking further documentation from the State.
Ciaran McLaughlin told Judge Paul Kelly that he was not trying to delay matters but was seeking as much information as possible in advance to brief counsel.
He said that the Book of Evidence contained photocopies of photographs of the scene of the crash and he was seeking copies of the originals, as well as a video of the scene and maps of the area which were not in the book.
Judge Kelly adjourned the case to allow the material to be furnished to the defence.
Those who died in the crash on 11 July 2010 were Eamon McDaid, 21, of Ballymagan, Buncrana; PJ McLaughlin, 21, of Burnfoot; Ciaran Sweeney, 19, of Ballyliffin; James McEleney, 23, of Clonmany; Mark McLaughlin, 21, of Fahan; Paul Doherty, 19, of Ballyliffin; Damien McLaughlin, 21, of Buncrana; &
The Funeral of Hugh Friel, 66, of Clonmany. 
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