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Taoiseach Enda Kenny at Ryanair's new campus. Niall Carson

Ryanair promises 200 jobs as it opens new Dublin campus and launches new website

The airline say the jobs will be in the areas of technology, software and marketing.

RYANAIR SAYS IT will create 200 jobs at its new office campus which was opened in Dublin today by Taoiseach Enda Kenny.

The airline say the jobs will be in the areas of technology, software and marketing and are in addition to the 500 jobs for pilots, engineers and cabin crew that they will create across Europe in 2014.

The 100,000 sq.ft campus in the Airside Business Park in Swords was officially opened today by Kenny and Minister for Finance Michael Noonan as Ryanair prepares to launch its newly redesigned website later today.

It is intended that the new office will be used to develop Ryanair’s digital platforms with the company’s new mobile app due to be released in June.

Although the new campus was officially launched today, potential employees have been given tours of the space over the past few months, with chief executive Michael O’Leary understood to have conducted the tour on at least one occasion.

Upon officially opening the new office today, An Taoiseach commended Ryanair for their commitment to Ireland, adding that their sector is being targeted by the Government as a growth area:

From an early stage, we have targeted tourism as a key driver of economic recovery and I am pleased to say budgetary measures such as the 9 per cent VAT rate and the more recent cutting of the travel tax to zero have been welcomed by the industry which has responded by delivering new jobs and routes.

Ryanair’s chairman David Bonderman says that the Government’s decision on the travel tax has “directly led Ryanair to open 21 new routes to Ireland in 2014″,  which he says will add more that 1.1 million passengers at Irish airports.

“Ryanair sees the decision to scrap the travel tax as a welcome policy development by Mr Kenny’s government, which will enable Ireland’s airline and tourism industry to grow strongly,” he said.

“It has certainly encouraged Ryanair to invest in, and help create, thousands of new jobs here in Ireland in 2014. ”

Bonderman added that Ryanair are soon to take delivery of another 175 aircraft.

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    Nov 25th 2018, 5:42 PM

    Why don’t the Gardaí have this capability rather than a volunteer organisation?

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    Nov 25th 2018, 5:46 PM

    @John: they tried but someone mentioned GDPR and data protection.

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    Nov 25th 2018, 8:51 PM

    @John: During a missing person search, you’d be surprised how much is outsourced to voluntary organisations. Mainly due to the fact that they’re very labour intensive and it keeps Gardai free for their frontline roles, also the infrastructure that CD in particular have is top notch and allows for seamless intra-organisation communication.

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    Nov 27th 2018, 7:48 PM

    @John: cos theyre too dim to pilot somoethig. Like these high powered things

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    Nov 25th 2018, 6:19 PM

    You need a drone license?

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    Nov 25th 2018, 6:50 PM

    @Liam Carlin: yes, unless you are operating a drone of less than 1kg in Uncontrolled Airspace, below 400ft, in visual flight rules, line of sight, but not further than 300m away, and not over or within 30m of people or vehicles and within a flight area you can control, nor over urban areas. For everything else you need a license, its actualkt quite strict but many flout the rules.
    check out https://www.iaa.ie/general-aviation/drones/drone-regulations-guidance

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    Nov 26th 2018, 11:21 AM

    @Vocal Outrage: where’s a good place to do training?

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    Nov 25th 2018, 11:51 PM

    Paul Kehoe isn’t the defence minister, Leo is. Paul is a junior minister, very very junior.

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    Nov 25th 2018, 6:12 PM

    Couple of questions for ye folks.

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    2. Anyone know the make & model of the car/jeep in the background?

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    Nov 25th 2018, 6:17 PM

    @Chief: the 4×4 is a land rover discovery, the drones we use are DJI inspire, Yuneec typhoon and DJI matrice drones, so all spec can be found on their websites

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    Nov 25th 2018, 6:54 PM

    @Shane Halpin: thanks Shane. Reason I asked about the land rover was I did a reverse image search on the drone picture and Google came back with ford escape hybrid as the result. Though it was impressive seen as the image only shows a vehicle wheel. On the drones,, I had a phantom 1, 3 and 4 myself for a while max flight time about 24 minutes, looks like that one in the image after I looked it up does around 37.

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    Nov 25th 2018, 7:14 PM

    @Chief: I’m guessing google picked up the outline of the landrover badge, it’s the same shape as the ford badge…

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    Nov 26th 2018, 6:47 PM

    Another way to spy on us stupid sheep.

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