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Updated at 10.20am
ACCENTURE IS OPENING a new innovation centre in Dublin, and has announced it intends to hire over 200 people in a range of roles.
€25 million is being invested in the project, and the firm is looking for professionals with R&D and design skills in ”cognitive computing, Internet of Things, advanced analytics, security and digital marketing”.
The centre will be a location to “research, incubate, and pilot innovative industry-specific and cross-industry technologies and solutions” for Accenture’s clients. (And if you’re wondering what the ‘Internet of Things’ is when it’s at home, here’s a handy explainer.)
Accenture has been incorporated in Dublin since 2009. According to boss of Accenture Ireland, Alastair Blair:
“We have a long history in Ireland and a significant presence in the country with more than 1,800 employees today.
“Over the years, we have made significant investments in Ireland including the creation of the Accenture Analytics Innovation Centre in Dublin which will now serve as the cornerstone for our Centre for Innovation.”
Taoiseach Enda Kenny has also welcomed the announcement this morning, describing it as “a welcome endorsement of the Government’s strategy on ICT”.
IBM
It’s the second major tech jobs announcement for Ireland in as many days.
IBM, a company with more than 435,000 employees across the world, announced an expansion of its 3,000-strong workforce here yesterday.
It will be hiring for 150 software engineering roles in Dublin, Cork, and Galway, with recruitment to expected to begin in the coming weeks.
Announcing the expansion, Tánaiste Joan Burton said IBM has “real history, and has taken the knowledge from that experience to constantly evolve”.
That process of evolution has kept IBM at the forefront of the tech sector. And in Ireland’s case, it has meant over half a century of successfully doing business here.
Jobs news
Also on the jobs front, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell to 9.4% from 9.5% in August.
This represents a decrease of around 800 people, or 28,100 compared to the same time last year, data from the CSO released yesterday showed.
The unemployment rate for men stood at 10.5% for men and 8.1% for women. However, the National Youth Council of Ireland expressed concern over state youth unemployment figures.
Deputy director James Doorley explained: “After a steady decline since 2012, from a high of 31% to 21% at the end of 2014, youth unemployment has remained static for the past 6 months at over 20%.”
This doesn’t reflect the wider economic recovery underway, which is a cause for concern. As young people were hardest hit by the recession, it is vital that they are not left behind as the wider economy recovers.
Doorley said he believes the government needs to “intensify” its efforts to implement the Youth Guarantee scheme.
Additional reporting by Daragh Brophy. Originally posted on Tuesday evening.
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Keep strong, you are a survivor and always will be. You should be very proud of yourself.
Inspirational. What happened to you was diabolical but it doesn’t define you. I wish you joy happiness and success in everything you do.
Well done you will be a great help to other survivor s..wish u a happy life
What amazing strength you show. You are a survivor and always will be. You should be very proud of yourself.
Well done to you I myself am a victim of sexual abuse over a 3 year period by a neighbour. It really did a lot of damage but when I went to the guards they arrested him and believed him over me because he worked for the army and was an officer.
Fast forward it to 2012 i get him supenaed to court 2 days before he commits suicide. He’s family say he dies of a heart attack.
I know the undertaker he tells me the truth.
He did what he had to do and so did I well done to you I admire you strength. I have a wonderful life but we all have our crosses to bare.
Well don’t and congratulations.
Whether or not your believe yourself to be brave, Im sure every person who read this can only think you’re braver than most people in this world. You went from the horror you experienced to being an inspiration for those who might find themselves in that situation and you should be incredibly proud. Good luck with whatever you want to achieve, its hard to imagine you wont reach your goal whatever that might be!
I am happy that you don’t flinch at touch. I am glad you don’t try to wash away the dirt. I hope you don’t try to.numb your pain in food or alcohol or drugs. The fact is there are many survivors out there struggling each in their own way. I don’t think it was your intention, but I felt your comments on flinching and showering smacked of tuppence ha’penny looking down on tuppence. Every survivor has a stoney path to walk and each path is difficult. Keep growing, but have compassion for those who do shower ferociously or flinch at touch.
@Ian Phillip Creaner: as you said it wasn’t her intention, and I don’t think she is looking down at anyone or judging anyone. She’s a survivor, she’s brave beyond words even though she doesn’t know it, not just to endure and survive but to speak out and help others. Every survivor has their way of surviving and dealing with the past, of burying it or setting it free, of flinching or trying to wash it away or shut it out. Just different ways of dealing with the pain. No judgement, just different.
Aicha, you are a brilliant young woman who has a special talent for writing. When I was reading this I thought it was by a much more experienced writer, and I was amazed to find you’re at university age!
Well done to you for writing this powerful article, I wish you every success and happiness in life. Traumatic betrayals and abuse aren’t “gotten over”, they’re worked through, and it seems like you’re well on your journey.
I’m so glad to hear you’re enjoying yourself with your girlfriend and going to gigs, you’re going to have such a good time in university!! All the best! Xx
@Veronica: I thought the exact same thing, super, super writing from someone so young. All the best with the leaving cert and university Aicha, I hope to read more of your work some day!
I myself have a book coming out soon. It’s called groomed by a predator.. watch out for it. Also best of luck in your leaving cert
Your natural inner strength is the best vengeance you could have. You’re a total inspiration.
He was no father, he was just a hateful object, laws need stepped up, the courts do little, they just listen to harrowing stories, that all end up the same, wrecking families, and lives, a child enduring that ongoing abuse without anyone there to question or intervine as to where the pedo was taking the child, was disgusting, grown men should just leave children alone, pedo’s know themselves they should be locked away, pedo’s know the courts are just a laughing stock, there to be mocked, in a sense the courts are not taking control, so they are as much to blame, as they have pedo’s walking away like protected species, and the pedo’s know that too, robbers and tough men get massive sentences compared to them, so it’s not as if the courts don’t know how to pass sentances, they do it very well, why should survivors of abuse have to be so brave, they should all be safe in the knowledge that crimes against children will be dealt with to help them heal from the everyday trauma they will go through.
@Louisa Anna Harley: I agree with you when that person was arrested the dpp sent me a letter to say that there coukd be no charges against him. Why because he worked as an army officer and they look afyer each other not them all I may add but it ruined me for years I turned to drink and drugs and eventually went to rehab in 2001.
I have been clean now 19 years tip wood. So i had to pass this persons house everyday until the onky thing i coukd do was to go after his estate and get him into court that way and he cut his wrists and took his own life 2 days before court.
People said to me did I feel guilty because he committed suicide because I got his supeaned for court.
If he was an innocent man why would he do what he donr and no I didn’t feel guilty he chose his path and I had to get on with my life.
I went to the local papers and told my story anonymously. When I went to my local tape crisis center after I told my story they hung my article in the hall, and I was told by councillor that thay were over run with calls saying that it gave people the courage to come forward.
That’s what gave me strength. But in my book I have named his name.
His family got a well known drug dealer to approach me to ask me to forget about it offered me 30,000 € I told him burn it all proceeds of my book will go to the rape crisis center.
I wish you the very best. In life your a brave soul.
Do not ever think that you ever did wrong you didn’t.
Congratulations more people like us both shoukd come together and speak out as one voice.
Wow, thank you for sharing your story and for your courage and openness. You are an exceptional person to have gone through something like that and come out the other side. You deserve nothing but happiness.
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