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SOME 50 NEW jobs have been announced today by cleaning company McCreery Contract Cleaning which has its head office in Kilkenny.
The company has expanded into Dublin and now intends to more than double its staff numbers at the new city centre base over the next two years.
McCreery Contract Cleaning was established in 2000 and has over 70 clients across the south east of the country and now in Dublin including offices, schools, banks, hospitals and hotels.
Initially, the company said it will focus on Dublin’s “high value homes with high security requirements”.
“There are so many working men and women who are time poor and cleaning their homes is simply not the best use of their time, which is why we have developed a bespoke cleaning services package for Dublin’s domestic cleaning market,” commented founder of the company Jennifer McCreery. “We are looking forward to a successful expansion into the Dublin market and recruiting and training new staff over the next two years.”
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50 jobs for Estonia.
LoL but true
The only reason anyone from Estonia would get a job doing this is becuase some Irish people think they are to good to work a job like this.
More to do with the level of social welfare payments.
@ Henry
I that’s a lie that was made up by the foreigners
Stop spinning that record
I worked for a contract cleaners for years, yeah it was demeaning at times, well at least I felt it was. But it was a job, which I was more than happy to do, money is money in the end isn’t it?
Cut the crap Henry! Who did all these jobs in the past before the influx of eastern Europeans ! Irish people wouldn’t take the shabby treatment
I remember not too long ago when Obama was flying over for the G8 summit, and some students were asked what they would ask the leaders at the G8 summit to focus on.
“Jobs. There are new jobs being created yes, but they’re not the ones we want, or they don’t allow us to make use of our degrees”
Current Irish mentality in one.
Educate ourselves to Masters or PhD level and take a job as a cleaner?
You are wrong,Dr. Stephen Harding.Paddys like these jobs now,Paddys got arrogant and reckless in the Celtic tiger era.They are small little boys and girls now. LOL
I worked in hotels during the good times and no Irish would apply for the jobs on offer. People actually looked down on because I worked in one and I wasn’t out on a building site earning stupid amounts of money living the champagne lifestyle.
The people on the champagne lifestyle were probably keeping you in a job you clown!
Not in the place I worked becuase it was a seaside hotel in Ireland and everyone were going away to there villas out in Spain or the South of France.
I worked in construction for 12 years all around Ireland and I never worked with anyone who had a villa abroad!
No you can’t say all as I have a very successful cleaning business and I’m all Irish.
Your all Irish or all your staff are Irish Gwen?
Ciaran, I’m 100% Irish and so are my staff. Do not judge by a name
Hang on a second.
There is no growth in the number of people working as cleaners, quite the opposite. This company is essentially taking over contracts from other companies that went bust of lost those contracts and had to lay off cleaners as a result.
There is no real “job creation” here unless all of the clients are brand new businesses that previously didn’t employ any cleaning staff, which is highly unlikely.
Have The Journal jumped on the same bandwagon of RTE, pimping false job creation stories which are effectively regurgitated government press releases, paraded as “news”?
Nicky, it’s exactly the same as the good news story about Tesco creating hundreds of jobs. What they never talk about is the thousands of jobs lost by local shops etc closing when Tesco opens beside them.
Recession over.
Great to see jobs being created and particularly in an Irish company. These should be immediately offered to those with a appropriate level of qualification on job seekers allowance and if rejected their welfare should be revoked.
“Appropriate level of qualification?” Is one ever unqualified to clean? This stupid country has people thinking you need a degree to do anything for a living!
Generous dole payments will act as a deterrant for most. I don’t blame the social welfare recipiants I blame the system. If the company offered cash in hand payments they’d be overrun with applicants. I’d be first in line for such an offer! :)
@Rufus I mean to say they obviously can’t be given to just anyone on job seekers e.g. those with higher qualifications. But anyone who fits the job should be in it without choice
@Alan ‘cash in hand payments’ So these guys can collect dole and tax-free pay on the side?! We have enough of that going on already! Get these people working
Aay jaysus! Cleaner’s are getting it now. It’s job creation, its families safe or safer and it’s a positive.. but still u have the igit saying ” oh cleaner’s are great or whatever. “.. THEY are the people who work, pay taxes, pay for services and shop in the local. They are the economy and are getting all of us outta this mess.. and we should be so respectful of their mentality…the foundation of all.. and a bench mark for many .. the backbone of any society are the real worker’s. .
Are you finished P Kelly?- First and foremost, most cleaning jobs are been taken by eastern Europeans (Fact), who are sending their money home, so it’s not being spent here! Secondly, I don’t know of any cleaner who is earning enough to warrant a “Out of the woods” claim! This is not good news as none of these jobs will go to Irish! The same Irish who did the job in the first place!
I hope they clean up!
At least it’s something other than IT support jobs!
50 new claner jobs expect 100 more available on the jonbridge …. become a master scruber in 9 months
I saw that movie with Jean Reno and reckoned it would be cool to be a cleaner
so “many working women and men who are time poor” and really couldn’t be arsed to clean up after themselves = selfish, lazy so an’ so’s!!!!
I wonder are they getting contracts from friends in government ?? It is a big investment involving long leases and bank loans etc. the directors must have friends in high places to make a big decision like this at a time when people are cleaning their own floors in businesses. Is Phil Hogan involved or Lowery?
This is real news.. this is the return of the ….mack.. or mac or
…no , the euro… whatever. . This is freedom:) welcome. This is Achievement!
This is News?
Would of course be better for the local community if the profits were returned to the workers as in the http://Www.belfastcleaningsociety .com
Is 50 jobs makes the news. Really!!! ?
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