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The Déise is getting some much-needed jobs

A publishing company has announced 100 new jobs.

WATERFORD IS GETTING another jobs boost with the announcement of 100 new positions.

The city was one of the hardest hit by the recession, and has struggled to get back on its feet.

However, the dozens of new jobs announced this morning will not all be filled until three years down the line.

Agora Publishing, which currently has a presence in Waterford with 33 jobs at International Living, is expanding its operations with a multilingual contact centre and a technology services centre.

The company describes itself online as “a holding company for various publishers of financial, health, travel and special interest books and newsletters”.

Daryl Berver, president of publishing services at the company, said Agora had a long relationship with the city:

This investment allows us to meet the demands of our growing business and take advantage of the high quality of talent available.

The new centre will be at a period building, currently being renovated at a cost of €4.4 million, in Portlaw.

Minister of State and Waterford TD Paudie Coffey said: “It is clear that the economic recovery is now taking hold in our rural towns and villages.”

The project is being supported by the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation through IDA Ireland, whose CEO Martin Shanahan said targeting increased levels of investment in regional locations has been an important focus of IDA’s new strategy.

Read: Why this man is building a million euro centre for homegrown food in Waterford >

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    Mute Niall Lonergan
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    Apr 24th 2015, 2:45 PM

    Bit of good news around these parts for a change.

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    Mute Bobby Phelan
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    Apr 24th 2015, 6:01 PM

    100 jobs in 3 years ok ted some recovery

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    Mute MK76
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    Apr 24th 2015, 8:40 PM

    Agreed. Every job announcement should be met with criticism contempt and derision, even when the cumulative job count starts hitting the 1,000s.

    Bloody facts, eh.

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    Mute Pepper Brooks
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    Apr 24th 2015, 11:29 PM

    Bobby is a Sinn Fein hack. What would he know about creating jobs? Nothing, that’s what.

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    Apr 25th 2015, 6:59 PM

    Pepper i am not a member of any party but i will b voting sf and indp next round sick of ure shite https://youtu.be/27UL3tZW1bk show your face because it looks like ure trolling very strange.I will comment how i like good look to you who ever you are i really dont care what u think._.

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    Mute MK76
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    Apr 24th 2015, 2:26 PM

    This is terrible news, as it further proof that things are improving in Ireland.

    Booooooooooo.

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    Apr 24th 2015, 4:05 PM

    My father spent his life complaining about the economy, and his father, and his father. Now that’s being taken away from me by raising employment, it’s the worst.

    What will they take from us next? If the price of a pint goes down my family might have to give up the complaining business entirely. A tragic end of an era.

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    Mute JJ O Riordan
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    Apr 24th 2015, 4:55 PM

    The shinners will be furious

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    Apr 24th 2015, 3:16 PM

    Not really true though Gerry. 750 people were given a “drop of the hat” one months notice in Waterford when a similar enterprise called “talk talk” closed their so called “centre of excellence”.

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    Mute gerry o donell
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    Apr 24th 2015, 2:50 PM

    Ireland needs more multilingual call centres. These companies invest billions in the country and don’t leave at the drop of a hat, they are export driven bringing much needed foreign money into the country. what we don’t need are indigenious irish companies and factories where only foreign nationals would have the nessecary skills to work in these facillaties. Then these irish companies up sticks and leave to the next sucker country that will give them big grants and tax breaks. Leaving behind foreign nationals who will sponge of the welfare.
    Ireland needs a government who will actively seek out and fund call centre jobs as they have shown time and again how loyal they are to their irish work forces.

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    Apr 24th 2015, 3:28 PM

    Jerry no company is that loyal to any one country or place, they will go wherever there is profit and many multinationals across a range of sectors have abandoned Ireland. As for the we don’t need indigenous companies line that is nonsense we absolutely need them in fact a big problem over the last few years has been over reliance on foreign companies. Irish based companies might move a lot of their production abroad but if they base their main headquarters here then they will always be capable of bringing profit into the country that’s why the wealthy economies of the world are home to company headquarters and they don’t rely so heavily on attracting secondary offices and plants. Our government need to strike a balance between helping Irish entrepreneurs and attracting foreign investment at the moment they are focusing too heavily on the latter.

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    Apr 24th 2015, 4:25 PM

    Like talk talk?

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    Apr 24th 2015, 7:37 PM

    That’s the last time I attempt sarcasm.

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    Apr 24th 2015, 4:36 PM

    Still all three years then, nothings changed at all

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