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EA subsidiary to open call centre with 200 jobs

Bioware Ireland, a division of video game company Electronic Arts, is opening a customer service centre in Co Galway.

THE TAOISEACH Enda Kenny will today open a new customer service centre in Co Galway which is expected to create 200 jobs.

Bioware Ireland, a subsidiary of the video game company Electronic Arts, is setting up the new centre at the IDA’s Business and Technology Park in Parkmore West, Galway.

Around half of the centre’s jobs have already been filled, it is thought.

The centre will be used to provide customer support for players of one of EA’s major new releases, Star Wars: The Old Republic.

The opening of the new centre will also be attended by BioWare’s co-founders Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk.

BioWare said it had chosen Galway as the venue for its first European customer support centre because of its recruitment opportunities and technological infrastructure.

The Star Wars game, which is being released in the days before Christmas, is a multiplayer online role-playing game set in the same universe as George Lucas’s blockbuster movies.

It has been in development for three years. EA said it had received 200,000 pre-orders for the game within the first six days of accepting them, some three months before the game’s full release – more than for any other game in its history.

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    Mute Dan The Man
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    Jun 19th 2015, 6:04 PM

    Will be a fine example to her child Jesus the cycle continues

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    Mute John B
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    Jun 19th 2015, 7:41 PM

    Agree. The only hope to improve her offsprings chances would be to have them adopted at birth. Unfortunately us taxpayers will be supporting this delight and her offspring for eternity. Ironic also how the judge felt community service inappropriate due to her pregnancy.

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    Mute Bearsass Hairyarse
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    Jun 19th 2015, 6:03 PM

    Classy bird……

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    Jun 19th 2015, 6:10 PM

    Probably a session moth…

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    Mute david dickson
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    Jun 19th 2015, 6:13 PM

    A bird flying free.
    Should have had her wings clipped.

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    Mute Daffy the Bear
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    Jun 19th 2015, 6:57 PM

    Rough brazzer..

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    Mute Ron North
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    Jun 19th 2015, 6:16 PM

    What an utter skanger, her second time to avoid jail time since the start of the year.
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    http://www.herald.ie/news/mumtobe-avoids-jail-for-attacking-four-gardai-in-rage-31016279.html

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    Mute Kinsaleable
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    Jun 19th 2015, 6:28 PM

    Very true Conor. I wonder if there’ll be any investigation into possible misleading of the court? highly unlikely..

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    Mute Owen Slattery
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    Jun 19th 2015, 6:57 PM

    What does a woman have to do to be sent to prison in Ireland? She has assaulted several Gardai, kicking one in the head – yet still walks free.

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    Mute David Doran
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    Jun 19th 2015, 7:13 PM

    May be grounds for an appeal by the DPP if the judge wasn’t “fully informed”of all the facts inc.previous convictions….

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    Mute Chris Mcdonnell
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    Jun 19th 2015, 8:40 PM

    This man has allowed a dangerous person free to harm others, he also mislead the court ( I say mislead but his pants are on fire ) can he be held responsible for the next assault this lady commits?

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    Mute None
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    Jun 20th 2015, 8:32 AM

    The lowest of the low, utter dirt. Gutter pig.

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    Mute shane curran
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    Jun 19th 2015, 6:18 PM

    Sentenced to 6 years? Was home before the judge. What’s the deterrent?

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    Mute Le Tigre
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    Jun 19th 2015, 6:37 PM

    The deterrent is that she’ll hit you if you say that again

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    Mute Ben Redline
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    Jun 19th 2015, 6:15 PM

    Ah she’s a keeper alright, will definitely make an excellent mother.

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    Mute Diane Cauldwell
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    Jun 19th 2015, 6:05 PM

    How wonderful mother she’ll make

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    Jun 19th 2015, 6:54 PM

    “Conor McKenna BL, defending, said this was a shocking and frightening assault but said his client has no other convictions involving violence.
    He said she has taken part in anger awareness and alcohol offending courses since the assaults.”

    I personally don’t believe what Mr McKenna told the court.

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    Mute Helena Mulcahy
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    Jun 19th 2015, 6:42 PM

    That dirtbag should have been made do hours and hours of community service and jail sentence! Pregnancy complications, my a…

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    Mute Le Tigre
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    Jun 19th 2015, 6:38 PM

    “And then unto Zoe a get-out-of-jail card was born”

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    Mute Deborah Behan
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    Jun 19th 2015, 6:41 PM

    God I feel sorry for her kid!

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    Mute Brian Gormley
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    Jun 19th 2015, 6:37 PM

    another wonderful generation In the making

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    Mute Anne Marie Devlin
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    Jun 19th 2015, 7:27 PM

    No reason not to get prison. Her pregnancy complications would receive the necessary treatment.

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    Mute Larry L'Oiseau
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    Jun 19th 2015, 8:27 PM

    if you’re passing the Coombe in a few weeks and theres a wan standing outside having a smoke in her PJs and stillettos, for jaysus sake don’t make eye contact !!

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    Jun 19th 2015, 6:14 PM

    Why this crazy stuff always happens in Tallaght , can we not cut out that whole area and shoved it in the Atlantic, hehe!

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    Mute Ciaran
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    Jun 19th 2015, 11:13 PM

    Racist

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    Jun 19th 2015, 7:31 PM

    What a manky skanger.

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    Mute Conor Sweeney
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    Jun 19th 2015, 6:08 PM

    I feel a Suspended Sentence in the force.

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    Mute Kaz
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    Jun 19th 2015, 7:06 PM

    Mother of the year nomination right there! Shocking what people are getting away with and what do we expect when there is no deterrent.

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    Mute fusha2020
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    Jun 19th 2015, 6:07 PM

    Single white female!
    Also where does the brother work?!!

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    Mute Gaucho Doyle
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    Jun 19th 2015, 7:28 PM

    It is a female privilege to not do time, especially when your white. Where’s all the usual suspect oppressed feminists on this article?… Probably busy making up statistics to fight the patriarch.

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    Jun 19th 2015, 7:58 PM

    Skanger shes the local how-ah-yeaa!!

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    Jun 19th 2015, 9:47 PM

    Why is the headline even mentioning pregnancy – the attack was in 2013 – she wasn’t pregnant then and even so if if a pregnant person cannot be discriminated against under labour law then there should be no concession given to any person that breaks the law and uses a condition chosen by then possibly as a means of avoiding jail time. The Journal should not be using tabloid headlines like this

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    Jun 19th 2015, 9:27 PM

    What pregnant woman wears stiletto shoes?

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    Mute Michael Sands
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    Jun 19th 2015, 9:29 PM

    Pregnancy complications didn’t stop her from using her stiletto shoes as weapons…

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    Jun 19th 2015, 10:54 PM

    Shocking! Had pregnancy complications so implanted her stiletto on some blokes head…main thing is she was cooperative though….

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    Mute Conor Power
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    Jun 20th 2015, 9:10 AM

    21 pregnant, already done for drunk driving assault and being abusive to Gardai. I pity that foetus.

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    Jun 20th 2015, 6:25 PM

    god what a classy bird….I’d say her child would be so proud…what do people have to do to get sent to prison these days??

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