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Updated at 9.41am
MORE THAN 300 Government-supported jobs are being confirmed for Dublin today, in two separate announcements.
Marketing agency Acorn has confirmed it will grow its headcount from its current level of around 100, to 200 staff over the next five years.
The firm was acquired by US marketing giant Epsilon last year, and the company’s Dublin office has been designated as a “creative services digital hub” for all markets outside North America.
The new jobs will be in management, HR, IT and finance roles, while Acorn will also be seeking to hire people with creative and digital design, planning, research and campaign production skills.
Welcoming the announcement, Jobs Minister Richard Bruton said that “seeking to deepen and develop the impact of multinational companies based here” was a major part of the Government’s Action Plan for Jobs.
“Today’s announcement that Acorn, a leading company in its sector, is adding 100 jobs in Dublin is very welcome news, and I wish them every success with their operations here.”
Acorn currently occupies a period office building in Dublin 4, and is now seeking additional office space as it plans its expansion.
Meanwhile, 218 jobs supported by Dublin Business Innovation Centre-backed firms are set to come on stream over the next 12 months. The Taoiseach will make the official announcement at a function later today.
The positions will be created across a range of entrepreneurial firms including Davra Networks, EmpowerTheUser, iCabbi, Learnosity, MMSOFT Design, OpenJaw Technologies, Point of Care, Stratus5 and SafeFood 360.
The Dublin BIC is a public-private business organisation that works with state agencies and private sector investors to support entrepreneurs.
This article was originally posted at 8.30am.
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Loads of jobs going in IT have to say i regret doing an apprenticeship when I finished school instead of going to college never too late though :)
Great news early morning
From the acorn grows the mighty oak.
Can’t believe this article is up nearly half an hour and nobody’s been on to knock the good news.
Good news.Hopefully we can turn a corner next year,its about time.
We are turning corners a few year now.
Yeah we turned three corners and came back to where we started 25 years ago..
Looks like pretty soon there’ll be nobody left in towns cities and villages in Ireland everybody will be living and working in Dublin.
Better Dublin than Australia!
at least you’d find a place to live in Australia, it is a big place after all very much like the places where most coming here are from. They must think Dublin is the size of London, strange. How many more you think we can fit?
You’ll find and see they’ll start to branch out eventually, much further than Intel’s Leixlip. Watch the scram for housing Athlone, Cavan!
Im confused with your comment, doesn’t make a lot of sense. Anyway, im sure you know Marc. It’s not all about size is it…
Its all very well for Mr Bruton with a big smile on his face to announce yet again more jobs for Dublin,as if the rest of the country dont exist,its having the effect of turning other areas into ghost towns with no jobs and no prospects,in some of these areas there are no young people left because they have all emmigrated,and just like former generations before them,many of the brightest and best will not return,this is not what the country needs or wants.
Oh no Richard, you mean, your kids have to emigrate to Dublin. How awful.
No James,you just dont get,devoloping local communities must be a priority if this country is ever to get up off its knees,SMEs and local enterprises must be given priority,FDI which recieves the bulk of all government grants will never solve all our unimployment problems.
jobs for the visitors, first point of call? Dublin. set up shop there where the visitors live, these jobs aren’t for the rest of Ireland. The lifestyle choice, long may it not last, while they live 4 to an apartment down in their fancy spencer and grand canal docks. A temporary lifestyle choice where home is not actually there, it’s just a bit of fun.
Hope you realise that large firms require large population catchments. It is stupid to think that an international marketing firm would not set up in Ireland’s primate city, along with all other multinationals that require what Dublin offers.
Keep thinking small, that never damaged Ireland’s growth before…
Why is it that Dublin gets the majority of all jobs announced these days. There are 25 other counties you know. Its highly unbalanced.
Infrastructure and talent.
It is unfair i agree,but look at it from a company’s point of view if they set up in Dubln they have access to a bigger pool of people to hire,they have access to better infrastructure and a host of other benefits.But you are correct like everything else in Ireland it always turns into a two tier system,one economy for Dublin and another for the rest of the country,whether this happens organically or by design i’m not sure,probably the latter.
An infrastructure that is under severe pressure already. Water, broadband, electricity all had their problems over the last week or two.
The Government needs to do a bit more to equalize any growth. This would be good for the rest of the country and good for Dublin in the long run.
You cannot force a business into any particular location if it does not want to go there.
The IDA does everything it can to persuade businesses to locate in areas with the highest unemployment.
I worked for an American company in the 90′s and we set up a business in Dublin. During the negotiations with the then DE&E the financial incentive to open in the West of Ireland was 3 times greater than that offerred for Dublin. We opened in Dublin for a variety of reasons, which, for us, the rest of Ireland couldn’t offer.
It’s the same in the UK, London like Dublin is the centre for almost everything. The creative people the talent the expertise are based in the city. These companies want to locate in Dublin. Once the engine of your country is going strong the rest of the country will see the benefits. This is good news.
Well more jobs, no matter where they are, means more income taxes which means, over time, less pressure on the government coffers which means, eventually, more IDA spending around the country.
Easily half the country’s population – if not more – lives within commuting distance of the capital. It’s hardly surprising that international businesses want to set up shop in a city stocked with universities and institutes of technology, with decent road and rail connections and and attractive civic culture. Could more be done for cities like Galway and Limerick? Sure. The island’s entire pharmaceutical industry is in Cork so they seem to be doing okay. Aside from that, do you really expect many companies to make a beeline for Leitrim or Donegal?
What really needs to be done is to take back our oil,gas and maritime resources,we are a very rich country the irish simply don’t realise it.there is trillions of euro’s swimming off the coast of ireland and trillions more under the sea bed.
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