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ENDA AND JOAN got their hands of some pretty jazzy looking orange trainers today.
They came as part of one of the more extravagant jobs launches Ireland has seen in recent times - with German online fashion company Zalando using boat travel and a catwalk show to promote its new ‘Fashion Insights Centre’.
Dignitaries from Ireland and Germany were transported from Grand Canal Dock across to an area now dubbed ‘Silicon Docks’.
Attendees had not been informed beforehand where they were going or even what company was hosting.
Upon arriving at the location, the attendees were joined by Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Tánaiste Joan Burton, and were treated to a fashion show by models wearing the company’s clothing and footwear.
The 200 jobs the company is creating in Ireland will be focused on the tech side of the business. Zalando specialises in selling clothes, shoes and lifestyle products online.
The ‘Fashion Insights Centre’ will be focusing on the areas of research and development, big data analysis, data science and engineering.
Also present at the launch today was the firm’s founder, Robert Gentz, who said the new Dublin-based centre would play a “major role” for the company in their continued European development.
Speaking at the launch, Taoiseach Enda Kenny said: “Ireland’s pre-eminent position at the cutting edge of technology did not happen by accident.
Our economy is an open and business-friendly one, with minimum of red tape or administrative hurdles. Investing companies find certainty and transparency here.
The company currently operate in 15 countries across Europe. The new jobs will be created over a three-year period and the company is supported by IDA Ireland.
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Oh great. Now we’ll be hearing from all the armchair experts with blindingly simple solutions that the programmers didn’t think of because they were too busy eating their liga and colouring in with their crayons. I can’t wait.
@8bitplebian: I don’t eat liga when I’m coding lol
@Scorpionvenomm: Sorry, Farley’s.
They should turn it off and on again
“British Airways HAVE apologised to ITS customers…”
@Harry Whitehead: British Airways is the name of the company, singular. The airways themselves haven’t actually apologised.
If you are going to be pedantic, at least be right.
@Michael Doyle: If British Airways is to be treated as a singular noun, the correct verbal agreement would be HAS, not HAVE. Try reading it again.
@Harry Whitehead: Exactly. That’s why your original correction was incorrect.
My heads hurt.
@Neal Ireland Hello.: Err…mine wasn’t a correction. I was directly quoting the article. I used capitals to highlight the mistake. Either ‘has + its’ or ‘have + their’.
@Harry Whitehead: Lol, show how much the Irish care about the stranded passengers
@Harry Whitehead: maybe the article has been fixed since you read it first. Further down I do see “British Airways say” , which is conflicting.
@Michael Doyle: Yeah you’re right, it’s been fixed.
@Harry Whitehead: That explains it. Now we can get back to worrying about the group of passengers that are/is stranded.
@Michael Doyle: *WORRY WORRY WORRY WORRY WORRY WORRY WORRY…*
@Michael Doyle: Sorry, couldn’t resist.
I’m glad we got to the bottom of this, gentlemen.
There’s some good deals in pc world, maybe they should get down there
Resilience and redundancy plans anyone??
Probably cloud-based….
Look up its an empty sky.
go back to old system with ticketing, technology is weak, all it takes is one system to go down and the hole lot falls down, flights delayed, or cancelled no good to people travelling or missing connecting flights! then they dump you outside the airport to fend for yourself!
@Stephen Finn:
There is a whole lot wrong with that suggestion.
@Nick Allen: and yet you aren’t arsed pointing out exactly what is wrong with it.
I think you will find they were hacked, but not admitting to the fact. It seems impossible that they would have no redundancy or contingency plan if a data centre was struck by lightning.
Hugo Drax involvement I’ll warrant .
The cancellations also hit flights to Heathrow and Gatwick, I’m in Miami and two flights from here today were cancelled. The staff on the desks said nine flights from New York were also cancelled, they were still suffering a lot of computer glitches while trying to transfer us to alternative flights with different airlines. I was in a queue for about 90 minutes and it then took about another 20 minutes for the desk agent to convince his computer to book me onto a new flight.
I somehow read the hashtag as ‘competence outage’.
Word on the street is the Indians screwed up!!!!!!
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