There is great news on the jobs front this morning, as four firms have announced the creation of 1,245 new positions across the country.
Nua Healthcare will create 800 jobs, mostly in new residential and day care facilities for people with intellectual disabilities, over the next three years.
Elsewhere, environmental services company Veolia will bring 300 positions over the next five years, all around the country, as it forecasts double-digit growth over that period of time.
In Dublin, online marketing company Boxever will create 100 high-tech jobs for data scientists and software engineers, and down south, in Cork, Netigate has announced the creation of 45 new positions.
Netigate provides survey and insight platform software to several international clients.