11/10/2012

600 Jobs Created By Paddy Power Expansion

The creation of more than 600 jobs at bookmaker Paddy Power’s new headquarters in Clonskeagh in Dublin will be announced by Taoiseach Enda Kenny on Thursday.

The new posts will be created in areas such as e-commerce, technology, social media, research, risk management and online marketing, between now and the end of 2015.

Paddy Power has created 190 jobs since the beginning of April. It currently employs 2,172 people in Ireland.

The new positions will bring the bookmaker's total Irish workforce to 2,783.

Strong international online growth in recent years has seen the company expand its operations into the UK, Australia and Italy.

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