Calls for more office space in Cork

There's calls for increased office space to facilitate the jobs waves the region has been experiencing this year. It comes after another successful week in Cork on the jobs front with over 200 jobs expected to come on stream. 130 new positions have been created in the Kingsley Hotel on Carrigrohane Road which reopened on Monday. In the past 48 hours meanwhile 80 new positions have been announced by two technology companies AlienVault and Itron. Speaking to RedFM News Ray O'Connor of IDA Ireland says locating some types of operations Leeside has been proving difficult: Click PLAY to hear audio
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