# PayPal

This year

2023

# tech layoffs

PayPal to close Dundalk office and cut 62 jobs from Irish workforce

The company also said it plans to sell its site in Ballycoolin and find a smaller office in Dublin.

26.2k

Mar 1st 2023, 3:29 PM

# tech lay offs

PayPal to cut around 2,000 jobs, 7% of its global workforce

PayPal employees around 2,000 people in Ireland and has operations here in Blanchardstown and Dundalk.

8.9k

Feb 1st 2023, 7:33 AM

Last year

2022

# redundancies

Over 300 jobs to go at PayPal offices in Dundalk and Blanchardstown

135 jobs in Blanchardstown and 172 jobs in Dundalk will be affected.

39.0k

May 24th 2022, 3:06 PM

All time

# Dundalk

Redundancies likely at PayPal's Irish sites as 131 roles to be moved overseas

PayPal has repeatedly stressed its commitment to Ireland, and to its Dundalk and Dublin sites.

37.2k

Apr 14th 2021, 6:16 PM

# perks and benefits

'Two years is a long time': How PayPal is trying to hold onto company-hopping young staff

Louise Phelan says the payments giant is rolling out the perks for millennials.

37.6k

Jun 24th 2018, 8:00 PM

# Work

'Two years is a long time': How PayPal is trying to hold onto company-hopping young staff

Louise Phelan says the payments giant is rolling out the perks for millennials.

745

Jun 21st 2018, 2:27 PM

# dublin and dundalk

PayPal workers to be offered new roles or voluntary redundancy

It’s believed about 60 employees will be affected by the changes.

30.2k

Apr 27th 2017, 7:39 PM

# lost jobs

"Crying, frustration, devastation" - eBay staff react to announcement of Dundalk closure

It’s anticipated that eBay is to close its operations in its Dundalk facility in the second quarter of 2017.

37.4k

Aug 26th 2016, 9:28 AM

# Jobs

eBay to close Dundalk operation next year

The decision is being made as PayPal wants to expand its business next year and has asked eBay to leave the facility.

25.5k

Aug 25th 2016, 4:05 PM

# insights

Your crash course in... The tech billionaire who took down Gawker and is now backing Trump

Peter Thiel’s decision to back Republican nominee could have something to do with ending democracy.

19.6k

Jul 23rd 2016, 6:00 PM

# jobs a comin'

There are 100 new jobs on the way at Paypal in Dublin

The online payments giant is to create the positions at its base in Ballycoolin.

14.7k

Mar 3rd 2016, 6:01 AM

# Cash Money

Fine Gael wants to increase the dole by €27*

*But the payment will be scaled back the longer a person is out of work.

26.8k

123

Feb 16th 2016, 2:38 PM

# IOU

PayPal is trying to reduce the awkwardness of asking friends for money back

Although there are no “firm plans” to bring PayPal.me to Irish users yet.

12.2k

Sep 1st 2015, 3:18 PM

# Cribs

Take a tour of Elon Musk's $17 million Bel Air mansion

Yo, homes to Bel Air.

30.2k

Jan 3rd 2015, 5:00 PM

# SME focus

SME focus: How we fared in 2014... and the picture for the year ahead

For December’s in-depth coverage of SMEs, we looked back on the year that was and towards the one to come.

5.7k

Dec 27th 2014, 9:15 AM

# zero to one

SME book club: The joys of building a business monopoly (for making money, that is)

One of the world’s most successful startup investors and part of the brains behind PayPal on why “competition is for losers”.

5.6k

Dec 23rd 2014, 9:00 AM

# splitsville

eBay and PayPal are consciously uncoupling

The online marketplace and payments giant are better apart say their shareholder.

9.5k

Sep 30th 2014, 2:49 PM

# Baby Steps

PayPal opens its doors (slightly) to bitcoin payments

The company has teamed up with three bitcoin payment processors, allowing sellers to accept bitcoin as payment for digital goods.

320

Sep 24th 2014, 2:41 PM

# JobBridge

IBM and PayPal criticised for using JobBridge to fill science and tech positions

One ad called for an extra foreign language for a €50 a week position.

9.6k

Jul 10th 2014, 2:51 PM

# Jobswatch

Good news for Dundalk as PayPal announces 400 more new jobs

PayPal says it is delighted to make a “very positive impact” in the north east by taking “so many unemployed people off the local live register”.

12.8k

Jun 18th 2014, 10:30 PM

# Changes

PayPal's president moves to Facebook to run its messaging products

The move will see David Marcus will be responsible for Facebook Messenger, but he will not be responsible for WhatsApp.

4.6k

Jun 10th 2014, 10:25 AM

# oculus rift

The CEO of Facebook-owned Oculus VR will be speaking at this year's Web Summit

Limerick-native Patrick Collison, founder and CEO of payments company Stripe, and the co-founder of Paypal, Max Levichin, will also speak at the event, now known as The Summit.

5.1k

Apr 29th 2014, 3:49 PM

# currency converter

Stripe goes global by letting users get paid in any currency

The company, founded by Limerick brothers John and Patrick Collison, will allow businesses to accept payments from more than 130 different currencies.

15.8k

Feb 12th 2014, 9:06 AM

# Instagram

Instagram starts displaying ads

Facebook has moved to start making money from the smartphone photo sharing service it bought in a billion-dollar deal last year.

6.6k

Nov 2nd 2013, 11:32 AM

# Activating Dublin

New scheme launched to help get more businesses trading online

Currently only 23 per cent of Irish SMEs trade online, with three of the four billion that Irish consumers spend online leaving the country.

5.9k

Apr 26th 2013, 8:15 PM

# Jobswatch

Good news: eBay to create 450 jobs in Dundalk

The new jobs will be in customer services, sales and compliance.

7.2k

Feb 14th 2013, 11:27 AM

# eBay

Ebay's 4Q performance caps company's best year yet

Revenue for the fourth quarter ending 31 December, 2012 increased 18 per cent to $4 billion, compared to the same time last year.

2.7k

Jan 17th 2013, 11:10 AM

# Anonymous

British student convicted over Anonymous PayPal hacking

Prosecutors said the assault on PayPal had cost the company €4.3 million in loss of trading as well as updates to fend off similar attacks.

16.5k

Dec 6th 2012, 9:22 PM

# savita

Amid Savita death concerns, Minister bids to attract Indian students to Ireland

Department of Education and Skills says the week-long mission to India headed up by Junior Minister Ciarán Cannon was planned months in advance of the death of Indian dentist Savita Halappanavar in Galway.

5.2k

Nov 21st 2012, 5:37 PM

# Web Summit

Dublin Web Summit: Credit and debit cards could become a thing of the past

In the future people will want to be able to make payments directly from their current account using their phone, rather than a card, the Dublin Web Summit heard today.

10.0k

Oct 17th 2012, 8:20 PM