What are the odds of that ,600jobs ..nice 1

This is good news. But not wanting to put a spanner in the works, these jobs all relate to its on line expansion. The days of the high street bookie are numbered, resulting invariably in job losses in that sector of the gambling industry.

And sure why wouldn’t the government be celebrating this. Government love gamblers. They even bail them out when they lose….

For Christ’s sake, this is good news. Gambling destroys some lives but so do pubs, breweries etc and nobody gives out about them. There’s nothing wrong with gambling in moderation, there’ll always be a few who take it too far but the same is true of any activity that people can get hooked on.

while I don’t condone gambling this is a big achievement for a Irish company to get ahead using technology. if paddy power wasn’t expanding it would be UK & US companies filling this slot.
well done creating 600 new jobs and I’m sure the government is happy with additional revenue this Irish company generates.

Paddy Power share price was around ?10 four years ago….and has steadily ramped up since 2008 just shy of ?58 this morning…That says it all about the gambling industry..Shocking!!!

I’d say some of the people who are talking crap on this never even set foot inside a bookmakers. Why are we turning into a nanny state. Don’t be worrying about everyone else’s lives. Look after yourselves.

Yes, we should really ban gambling and shut Paddy Power down. While we’re at it we might as well close all the pubs in Ireland, and the shops that sell cigarettes too. Misery merchants the lot of them. Down with freedom of choice!

Put a tax on gambling and use it to open treatment centers for gambling addicts around the country!

so many negative tweets. can’t the good be seen in any thing ?

mark my words the increase in gambling will only be a negative thing for Ireland, happy people don’t need to gamble cos they have too much to lose…

is it good news that there’s more and more pawn shops In Ireland, same thing

At last, a whole article that Eileen gabbett hasn’t commented on…
Shhh…

I hear Kenny is cutting a ribbon to the paddy towers today? So let’s get this straight…We are celebrating a gambling company that only adds misery to families and gambling addicts?? Gambling is a MUGS game.

also looking after ourselves is what got us into this mess, we are a society not a collection of individuals.

For a government trying to educate people on the dangers of drinking, obesity , smoking , here we have our Taoiseach cutting the ribbon to a gambling den ! Oh well never miss a photo opportunity enda !

There are more gambling ads on tv than drink add. Pity we are going from bad to worse. Gambling is much worse an addiction than drink. Yet it is legal. It should be taxed at a much higher rate than normal taxation. The lottery is played by people in the lower socio economic bracket (over 80 %) which tends to show that the better educated you are the less likely you are to gamble. Again it is the less well off and the vulnerable that seem hardest hit in life. Traditionally men gambled away the family money but a lot of women are now gambling and are targeted by the marketing people for the bookies.

They should ask PP how the feck they are going to offer parking and facilities for these new employees because car parking out here is full right now and with only one road in and out and a 20 minute traffic jam just to get onto the main road they are going to love working here :)

This is a ticking Time Bomb. I Hope Paddy Power is setting aside the Billions its going to cost to deal with mental health issues arising from the expansion of Gambling, and all the misery that goes with it! Thought not!

Internet gambling is the unbridled, unscrupulous and ruthless exploitation of the weak and vulnerable. It is driven by the greed of rich men in a largely unregulated environment.
Operators exploit “grey areas” and loopholes to circumvent national gambling laws in order to rake in huge, tax free profits.
It leads to untold misery for families and has proven to lead to addiction, depression and suicide. It should be universally outlawed immediately.
I am sick of being spammed and bombarded by these shoddy, shameless, smarmy and tawdry pop-up ads on all forms of social media.

You gang of hypocrites. Never heard such rubbish. Good on Paddy Powers for creating the jobs. As for this creating “Mental Health Issues” from the misery of Gambling lets add that to the “Mental Health Issues” caused by the drinking in the pubs here. Lot more people in Ireland with drink problems than gambling problems! OH I FORGOT IS GOOD CRAIC TO DRINK YOURSELF STUPID!!!!

Will there really be that much money to be gambled in 2015? Pretty big talk but a dismissible promise