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THE TAOISEACH IS to announce the creation of 600 new jobs at the official opening of bookmaker Paddy Power’s new headquarters in Clonskeagh, Dublin, later today.
The announcement will bring to 800 the number of jobs recently announced by the group – almost 200 of which have already been filled.
The positions to be announced later this morning will be in areas such as e-commerce, technology, social media, quantitative research, risk management and online marketing and will support Paddy Power’s “international online expansion”, the company said. All new jobs will be filled by the end of 2015.
The group has reported strong international online growth in recent years, allowing it to expand into the UK, Australia and Italy.
Paddy Power currently employs 2,172 people in Ireland.
The new jobs announced today are being created without the requirement of investment support from the State.
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I hear Kenny is cutting a ribbon to the paddy towers today? So let’s get this straight…We are celebrating a gambling company that only adds misery to families and gambling addicts?? Gambling is a MUGS game.
have to agree these jobs are a poisoned chalice, while they will provide some much needed employment gambling destroys lives
Who pissed in your cornflakes? This is GOOD NEWS. There’s precious little of it at the moment, would you rather there was a jobs cut announcement?
that is a ridiculous comment. This company will employ almost 3000 people in Ireland after this expansion. the vast majority of its customers enjoy an occasional bet and are not addicted. you must be delighted to see all the pubs closing around the country to protect those with alcohol problems
jobs for people is great,
However, the misery that gambling causes needs to be remembered too, these are far from good quality jobs and shouldn’t really be celebrated
I never came across a person that was forced to gamble. People make choices. Paddy power provides a service much like a pub or the lotto. Fair play to the company.
@Martin Mac
I have to agree with you. I am finding it very hard to accept that this is a good thing. Too many young people are gampling on line and also I see a lot of them hanging around the local betting offices. This can’t be good. I really don’t think this is something positive or to be proud of Mr. Kenny. The one person smiling with this news, are the owners.
Surveys will always show that in the main, people lose all the time with gambling. Yes, I know, they are supposedly adults, but so are people that take drugs, smoke, drink and drive. People with low willpower will always lose.
@ Ollie: you obviously know little about the nature of addiction.
I’m guessing most of the people putting a negative spin on this would enjoy a drink. The hypocrisy!!
Alcohol destroys lives too, sure shut down the bookies and pubs, ban cuggerettes.. but then wouldn’t we be an nanny state that no one has ever wanted.
The Kerry Group announced jobs and not many people lashed out at the “misery” created by eating high-fat foods and developing heart disease and obesity! Bookmakers are in the entertainment industry, there’s nothing sinister about what they do. The bet you put on a football match isn’t free but either is a ticket to the game or a subscription to Sky. And in any case, practically all bookmakers offer the facility of deposit limits and permanent closure. All companies try to make money from their customers; whether it’s Paddy Power or a supermarket.
And sure why wouldn’t the government be celebrating this. Government love gamblers. They even bail them out when they lose….
Very good truthful. :) The government has no cahonas when it comes to its people and perpetual debt and tackling the EU. this is good news on the jobs front though.
For Christ’s sake, this is good news. Gambling destroys some lives but so do pubs, breweries etc and nobody gives out about them. There’s nothing wrong with gambling in moderation, there’ll always be a few who take it too far but the same is true of any activity that people can get hooked on.
What are the odds of that ,600jobs ..nice 1
David , betcha they won’t employ that many
mark my words the increase in gambling will only be a negative thing for Ireland, happy people don’t need to gamble cos they have too much to lose…
I’d say some of the people who are talking crap on this never even set foot inside a bookmakers. Why are we turning into a nanny state. Don’t be worrying about everyone else’s lives. Look after yourselves.
yeah cos the bookies are full of life’s winners
MaverickPaw
Comment of the day lad! Perfect
This is good news. But not wanting to put a spanner in the works, these jobs all relate to its on line expansion. The days of the high street bookie are numbered, resulting invariably in job losses in that sector of the gambling industry.
Put a tax on gambling and use it to open treatment centers for gambling addicts around the country!
For a government trying to educate people on the dangers of drinking, obesity , smoking , here we have our Taoiseach cutting the ribbon to a gambling den ! Oh well never miss a photo opportunity enda !
@Tom joad,
He’s a celebrity! ‘don’t ya know’?! Well, he thinks he is.
Ye’re all narrow minded fools! Grow up and accept the good news! Ye haven’t a clue!
so many negative tweets. can’t the good be seen in any thing ?
There are more gambling ads on tv than drink add. Pity we are going from bad to worse. Gambling is much worse an addiction than drink. Yet it is legal. It should be taxed at a much higher rate than normal taxation. The lottery is played by people in the lower socio economic bracket (over 80 %) which tends to show that the better educated you are the less likely you are to gamble. Again it is the less well off and the vulnerable that seem hardest hit in life. Traditionally men gambled away the family money but a lot of women are now gambling and are targeted by the marketing people for the bookies.
“Gambling is a much worse addiction than drink”? You’re kidding right?
Yes, we should really ban gambling and shut Paddy Power down. While we’re at it we might as well close all the pubs in Ireland, and the shops that sell cigarettes too. Misery merchants the lot of them. Down with freedom of choice!
Definitely ban the sale of cars as well because accidents destroy lives too.
Paddy Power share price was around ?10 four years ago….and has steadily ramped up since 2008 just shy of ?58 this morning…That says it all about the gambling industry..Shocking!!!
is it good news that there’s more and more pawn shops In Ireland, same thing
while I don’t condone gambling this is a big achievement for a Irish company to get ahead using technology. if paddy power wasn’t expanding it would be UK & US companies filling this slot.
well done creating 600 new jobs and I’m sure the government is happy with additional revenue this Irish company generates.
also looking after ourselves is what got us into this mess, we are a society not a collection of individuals.
This is a ticking Time Bomb. I Hope Paddy Power is setting aside the Billions its going to cost to deal with mental health issues arising from the expansion of Gambling, and all the misery that goes with it! Thought not!
At last, a whole article that Eileen gabbett hasn’t commented on…
Shhh…
You gang of hypocrites. Never heard such rubbish. Good on Paddy Powers for creating the jobs. As for this creating “Mental Health Issues” from the misery of Gambling lets add that to the “Mental Health Issues” caused by the drinking in the pubs here. Lot more people in Ireland with drink problems than gambling problems! OH I FORGOT IS GOOD CRAIC TO DRINK YOURSELF STUPID!!!!
I’m certain there are more people in Ireland with alcohol problems than gambling problems. There are more people with lung cancer than brain cancer as well. What’s your point?
They should ask PP how the feck they are going to offer parking and facilities for these new employees because car parking out here is full right now and with only one road in and out and a 20 minute traffic jam just to get onto the main road they are going to love working here :)
Will there really be that much money to be gambled in 2015? Pretty big talk but a dismissible promise
Internet gambling is the unbridled, unscrupulous and ruthless exploitation of the weak and vulnerable. It is driven by the greed of rich men in a largely unregulated environment.
Operators exploit “grey areas” and loopholes to circumvent national gambling laws in order to rake in huge, tax free profits.
It leads to untold misery for families and has proven to lead to addiction, depression and suicide. It should be universally outlawed immediately.
I am sick of being spammed and bombarded by these shoddy, shameless, smarmy and tawdry pop-up ads on all forms of social media.
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