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Minister of State Fergus O'Dowd Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland

125 jobs for Drogheda

US comparison website Nextag to open operations in Co Louth town.

AMERICAN E-COMMERCE FIRM Nextag has confirmed it will create 125 jobs in Drogheda over the next five years.

The on-line shopping company, which compares prices for products and services,  is currently recruiting staff in Co Louth and the surrounding region.

“With the support of the IDA, we are proving to be the perfect place for US-based technology companies to locate their International operations” said Fergus O’Dowd, T.D., Minister of State at the Department of Communications, Energy & Natural Resources and Environment.

It is the second foreign direct investment in Drogheda in the past two weeks. Another 120 jobs will  be created at US electronic payments company Yapstone, which is establishing its European headquarters in the town.

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    Mute Unitedpeople Ireland
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    Feb 26th 2012, 3:30 PM

    A competition that we as of yet are not used to hearing about but fair play to all those to enter.

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    Feb 26th 2012, 3:51 PM

    I Second that.. It keeps dreams alive.

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    Feb 26th 2012, 4:15 PM

    Doesn’t Szilvia have a lovely bottom

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    Mute Francis Cussen
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    Feb 26th 2012, 7:29 PM

    but they all have lovely bottoms

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    Mute Adrian O'Donnell
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    Feb 27th 2012, 2:13 PM

    And she has a cracking pair of tires too..

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    Mute Francis Cussen
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    Feb 26th 2012, 7:31 PM

    bit sexist i think they are all wheely nice

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    Feb 26th 2012, 8:46 PM

    love it

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    Feb 26th 2012, 4:41 PM

    If she rolls over your foot with that wheelchair she won’t have a leg to stand on!

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    Feb 26th 2012, 5:19 PM

    Sick, Sick, Sick.

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    Feb 26th 2012, 5:26 PM

    Jesus Peter, it’s a disability not a sickness

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    Mute Joe McDermott
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    Feb 26th 2012, 6:09 PM

    Oh Dear. Super corny.

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    Mute Dave
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    Feb 26th 2012, 4:07 PM

    I think you mean discriminatory.

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    Feb 26th 2012, 8:37 PM

    Robert you should be the bigger man here and just walk away

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    Feb 26th 2012, 8:56 PM

    Jimmy that’s wheely insensitive

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    Feb 26th 2012, 8:18 PM

    Robert you’re on to me about spelling, hahaha

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    Mute Colin Ennis
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    Feb 26th 2012, 5:58 PM

    First prize is dinner with Stephen hawking’s

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    Mute Robert McDonnell
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    Feb 26th 2012, 8:08 PM

    Stephen Hawking’s what? His cat? His Wife?

    If your going to make a joke (albeit a terrible, insensitive one), it’d be nice if you got his name right.

    Not only did you spell it wrong, but you mistakenly (I assume) attributed something invisible to him. You might think your better than him because you can walk, but had you performed even reasonably well in primary school you would not have made the mistake you made above. He should pity you, not the other way around.

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    Feb 26th 2012, 8:09 PM

    *you’re

    I love iPhones.

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    Feb 27th 2012, 2:00 PM

    The winner phoned Stephen to make the arrangements but kept getting his answering machine.

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    Feb 26th 2012, 11:46 PM

    Ok everybody give up, already.

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    Feb 27th 2012, 12:02 AM

    lol! thank the stars for pedantic antics on this s’ite. ffs. now look what I. ve done.

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    Feb 27th 2012, 1:48 AM

    Don’t be so serious It’s only a bit of “craic”

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    Mute Adrian O'Donnell
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    Feb 27th 2012, 11:23 AM

    The winner of this contest is hardly guaranteed a long standing career in modelling. Unless they change the name of the stage to a ‘cat ramp’…

    ;-)

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    Feb 27th 2012, 3:09 PM

    Jesus! Just how many bad jokes and ‘play on words’ can you get out of a wheelchair story. Scraping the barrel there a bit guys….

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    Feb 27th 2012, 9:33 PM

    Slideshow please?

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    Feb 26th 2012, 11:08 PM

    Is this wheels how you guys roll?

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    Feb 26th 2012, 11:09 PM

    Wheely……damned predictive text!

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    Feb 27th 2012, 3:08 PM

    Jesus! Just how many bad jokes and ‘play on words’ can you get out of a wheelchair story. Scraping the bwarrel there a bit guys….

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