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Wednesday 23 May 2012

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BREAKING: Limerick ‘was never in running’ for PayPal as 1000 jobs set to be announced for Dundalk

By Mike Dwane
Published on Tuesday 21 February 2012 09:32

LIMERICK has lost out in the competition to bring 1000 jobs to the city with online payments firm PayPal, the Limerick Leader has learned.

It is understood that the massive investment will now go to Dundalk instead.

PayPal already employs 1500 people at its European headquarters in Blanchardstown but reports at the weekend suggested the company was about to confirm a new customer support centre away from the west Dublin base. PayPal executives were shown a number of sites in the Limerick region by the IDA last year but locations in Dundalk were also scouted.

And an informed source told the Limerick Leader this Monday that the Mid-West has missed out.

“Limerick was never really in the running and ultimately the choice came down to either Dundalk or Berlin,” the source said.

Dundalk was seen as a more advantageous location as being “practically a part of Greater Dublin” and with a bigger pool of people with language skills critical for the new call centre.

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John O'Shaughnessy

Sunday, February 26, 2012 at 08:20 PM

And no armed militias feuding without a couple of brain-cells between them! What did I tell you about avoiding LImerick? And it will not change!

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