Facebook today announced that the company plans to more than double the size of its operation during the official opening of its new EMEA headquarters in Dublin.
Facebook’s European operations have been headquartered in Dublin since October 2008 with over 70 employees currently on site.
The company expects to double the size of its [...]

US firm Lumension is setting up a new research and development centre in Galway, which will create 30 new jobs. The initiative is being supported by IDA Ireland.
Lumension, headquartered in Arizona, develops, integrates and markets security software that helps businesses protect their vital information and manage risk across firms’ networks.
The new centre in Galway will [...]

Ericsson is to lay off 300 workers over the next 18 months. All of the redundancies are to be sought at the company’s plant in Clonskeagh in Dublin.
In a statement, the company says that some of its Irish operations will be moved to other low-cost locations as part of its efforts to cut down on [...]

Dell will cut almost 2,000 jobs in Limerick in a cost-cutting measure.
The company plans to move all manufacturing from the Raheen facility to Poland over the next 12 months following a global review of its operations.
The measures at the 18-year-old Dell plant, which became a symbol of the Celtic Tiger boom years, dealt another blow [...]

Dell, is to axe at least 400 temporary workers this weekend. The computer giant last night confirmed  that “several hundred temporary employees” are to be let go from their Limerick base.
Fears are now growing for the 3,000 full-time Dell employees at the Raheen manufacturing facility in Limerick and the 1,400 workers in the Dublin facility.
However, [...]

Workers at Dell’s Cherrywood operation in Dublin this lunchtime received the unwelcome news that 250 permanent jobs are to be axed over the next nine months. The compulsory redundancies will primarily affect Dell’s Cherrywood operations. However, it is understood that approximately a quarter of the jobs to be cut will be at Dell’s Limerick [...]

Eircom has confirmed it is to seek job cuts before the end of the year. Reports on Wednesday claimed that up to 400 jobs could go at Eircom in the cost-cutting exercise after chief executive Rex Comb told the Irish Times the board was mulling over the prospect. He said the job cuts would take [...]