300 new jobs have been announced for Waterford, Dundalk and Dublin in financial services and customer support services.
The jobs are being created by Irish company Rigney Dolphin, which is headquartered in Waterford, and by Postbank, the joint venture between An Post and the Dutch-Belgian Bank, Fortis.
The news is less good for the building industry, where the latest review of employment says 27% of building firms shed jobs last month.
The biggest of this morning's job announcements comes from Rigney Dolphin.
The company was established in 1990 and has grown to into one of the country's biggest providers of call centre services to companies looking to outsource customer support.
The company already has 850 employees.
This morning it says it will grow that number to 1,100, which is 100 more staff than originally planned.
The firm opened its new premises in Waterford today, but the expansion will take in the company's other locations in Dundalk and Dublin.
Elsewhere, 50 jobs are being created with the opening of a new head office for Postbank in Dún Laoghaire, in south county Dublin.
Postbank sells Dutch retail bank Fortis' financial products through the post office network. The bank already employs 180 people in Athlone and in post office branches around the country.
Of huge concern, though, will be the deterioration of the employment situation in the building sector - the biggest employer in Ireland.
Research released by Ulster Bank this morning suggests sub-contractors are being told for the first time there is no work, while 27% of firms say they reduced employee numbers from August to September.
In other jobs news today The Park Academy Childcare Group announced the creation of 70 new jobs through its expansion programme across South Dublin and Wicklow.
This expansion includes the opening of two new crèche's in Sandyford, Dublin and Delgany, Co. Wicklow as well as an after-School facilities in Thornwood, Booterstown, Co. Dublin.
The group said the expansion will create over 70 new jobs, in addition to the 50 new jobs it had created over the past year.
