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WESTERN UNION is to employ an additional 35 staff at its offices in Clonskeagh, Dublin which currently employs almost 100 people.
The money transfer specialists having around 485,000 agents in over 200 territories and have been operating a European office in Dublin since 2003.
The company’s Ireland director Tim Keane said that the company “hopes to be in Clonskeagh for many years to come and aims to contribute to Ireland’s economic recovery and future success in whatever way it can”.
Welcoming Western Union’s decision, Minister of State Lucinda Creighton said that the jobs announced today would help “spread the benefits of Ireland’s success in attracting international financial services beyond the IFSC”.
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European post to Ireland seems to go through the UK first, causing enormous delays. Why? Ireland is part of Europe, not Britain – why does it use their service.
Also – they need to work on raising awareness in Europe that the REPUBLIC of Ireland (‘le Sud’) is not part of the UK. I have to explain it every time I post a letter in France and Belgium. (‘We’re not the Royaume Uni – we don’t have a King!)
@Amanda Reid: Some mail goes through the UK, but that would be bagged and all they do us forward it. Parcels would be shipped differently.
The guts of six weeks to post from the North to Spain. Joke.
@Kevin Rooney: at least he/she received, I ordered a big commercial fridge in the mid of Sep last year, “it’s still on the way” the supplier told me
You’re not kidding, a birthday card from the UK posted on December 11th arrived yesterday.
@Danny Poyner: Has it a first or second class stamp on it or is it an international stamp.
This afternoon, BBC radio news are reporting that Royal Mail have suffered a cyberattack, and are advising UK users not to post any international mail items, so don’t expect any improvement soon.
My parcel from the US was handed over to An Post on Dec 21st at the latest. They informed me by letter that customs charges needed to be paid on Jan 6th, by which stage I had already paid them (on the 4th), having done the research myself and getting info from USPS, really shouldn’t have to be doing that work myself. As of 11th the package has still not been delivered. The last piece of tracking information is my customs payment on Jan 4th.
What on earth has this got to do with the Royal Mail, An Post are capable of providing terrible service all by themselves.
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