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THE DONEGAL GAELTACHT has just been given a big jobs boost with the announcement of 125 new jobs in Gaoth Dobhair (Gweedore).
Manchester-based telemarketing and customer services company SLM Connect is to establish a new base at the Gaoth Dobhair Business Park, with the first jobs set to come on stream in the coming months.
The plans are supported by the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht through Údarás na Gaeltachta who say that 25 people will be hired initially.
Junior Minister and Donegal TD Joe McHugh says that the company plans to “increase its employment numbers substantially” in the months after the initial 25 positions are filled.
The company will be seeking employees with both customer care experience and others with management and supervisory experience.
The news is particularly positive for a county that has one of the highest unemployment rates in the country and a town that has had some significant job losses in recent times.
The move will see the creation of SLM Éire Teo which will begin operating from its Gaoth Dobhair base in the summer.
McHugh says that the jobs represent a “huge boost” for the area given the economic problems the county has faced.
“The move will be a major boost for the Gaeltacht area of Gaoth Dobhair and surrounding areas which have suffered unemployment and emigration in recent years and today’s news is a positive story for our county,” he said.
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You can turn them off?
I have heard it all now. There is a disorder for everything
Pretty dependent on mine, but it’s pretty sad when you look at a group of people in a pub / restaurant and they’re all tapping away in silence together. I’m good at putting it away when I’m with friends / family
Yep, I am totally addicted to mine…it’s always by my side. If I leave the house without it I go straight back home to pick it up… Bit of a worry really!
Yup that’s me !! I panic tbh thought it was unhealthy alright ! Since I was 16 I have slept with my phone next to me !! Lol it sounds crazy when I think about it! I’m more afraid of misplacing my phone than misplacing my friend lol
So have this.
Yeah i know someone like that.. wakes up in the morning and checks email twitter and FB. dont think she checks for texts of phone calls tho.
Shouldn’t it be called iPhobia?
It was inevitable really. We live in the information age where everything and anything can be done ‘via web’.. I’m addicted to mine, but tbh I think that’s an acceptable lifestyle in this day and age.
don’t give a monkeys about my phone, can easily go a day or two without checking it and i use a 5 year old 2g iphone
Well, it’ll probably be starting school in September so at least you’ll have the day to yourself.
Hahaha @David
This disease was rampant up until the end of the last century. Lead people to vandalise public phones (a phone in a glass box at the side of the street) by ripping off the hand set ( the part of the glass box you had to speak into)
You talking about me?
Haha does NOT apply to me at all! I have the most wonderful phone HTC RHYME and I never Ever know where it is and so never hear it ringing and so do not know who called or texted me. I am so bad that sometimes I see Txts only days later lol
Ah jaysus, couldn’t you have put up a picture of an iPhone. What the hell is that yolk
my worse case was the other night my friend got a tx and straight away all I could think was where is my phone, couldnt c it in my sight so spent ages looking for it for no reason…….is there a helpline for us yet???
duh of course its ok unless you’re from the 1920′s
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