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# brexit backstop
DUP and UUP leaders to meet Michel Barnier in Brussels in effort to prevent Irish Sea border
Technical discussions will resume in Brussels over Brexit this week.
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# EU Grant
Former TalkTalk workers get a €2.6m EU grant
The grant will help retrain 432 former call centre staff and get them back into employment.
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Dec 19th 2012, 5:07 PM
# Jobswatch
250 jobs to be created at Wexford call centre
The new jobs will be created over the next ten months at Eishtec, an Irish company set up in 2011.
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Dec 17th 2012, 10:08 AM
# Talk Talk
MEPs approve €5.4m funding to retrain TalkTalk workers
The European Parliament has approved an application from Ireland for funds to retrain the call centre staff sacked last year.
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Oct 23rd 2012, 10:01 PM
# Jobswatch
Eishtec to create 250 new jobs at Waterford call centre
Some welcome jobs news for Waterford.
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Jan 13th 2012, 8:33 AM
# Talk Talk
Ex-TalkTalk workers to begin upskilling programme
Skillnets has announced a €250,000 investment for the provision of training to former TalkTalk employees in Waterford.
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Oct 17th 2011, 7:30 AM
# Talk Talk
Government to apply for EU grant for TalkTalk staff
The European Globalisation Adjustment Fund would help former Waterford Talk Talk staff to retrain and find new work.
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Oct 10th 2011, 11:10 AM
Good Morning
The 9 at 9 Nine things you need to know this morning…
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Oct 10th 2011, 8:24 AM
Good Morning
The 9 at 9 Nine things you should know this morning…
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Oct 7th 2011, 8:44 AM
# Talk Talk
Talk Talk call centre closes in Waterford
Operations are being moved to different facilities, with the loss of 575 jobs in Waterford.
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Oct 7th 2011, 7:48 AM
# Talk Talk
Call centres rally round with 150 vacancies for laid-off Talk Talk workers
People in the industry “wanted to help in whatever way they could”, a spokesperson told TheJournal.ie.
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Sep 14th 2011, 9:14 AM
Good Morning
The 9 at 9 Nine things you need to know by 9am: Blow to Norris’s re-entry hopes, Hurricane Katia hits Ireland (literally), and proof that Spongebob literally makes you stupid…
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Sep 12th 2011, 8:36 AM
# Talk Talk
Laid-off Talk Talk staff 'had trained the people who took their jobs'
Employees in Waterford have told how they travelled abroad to train staff at other centres, who will now be doing their jobs.
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Sep 12th 2011, 8:03 AM
# University
Government clarifies stance on proposed ‘technological university’ for Waterford
The government says it hasn’t yet decided whether to give a university to the south-east – but that it’s speeding up a review.
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Sep 9th 2011, 4:31 PM
# Talk Talk
'It's not about your performance...' The moment Talk Talk staff were told of closure
Listen: Audio recorded at yesterday’s meeting at the Talk Talk facility in Waterford when management broke the news.
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Sep 8th 2011, 1:13 PM
Good Morning
The 9 at 9 Nine things you should know this morning…
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Sep 8th 2011, 8:33 AM
# Talk Talk
Talk Talk closure a 'dark day for Waterford'
The IDA’s chief executive says he is “appalled” that Talk Talk is planning on closing the plant in just four weeks.
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Sep 8th 2011, 7:39 AM
Evening Wrap
The 5 at 5 5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock.
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Sep 7th 2011, 4:45 PM
# Jobswatch
575 jobs lost as Talk Talk to close Waterford call centre
The telecoms company announces it will shut its Waterford call centre within a month, with only a handful of possible reassignments.
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Sep 7th 2011, 3:14 PM