More than 300 jobs are to be lost at two separate companies in Sligo and Cork.
160 jobs are to go at a call centre in Sligo. The Tiscali contact centre in the Finisklin Business Centre will close down in six months' time. Tiscali is part of the Talk Talk group, a UK supplier of phone and broadband services. Talk Talk took over the Sligo business in June of this year and says that it is closing the facility after an 'extensive review'.
Talk Talk said work currently undertaken in Sligo would be moved to other locations, including Waterford. The call centre in Sligo first opened in 2006, when it was operated by a company called Toucan, which promised 300 jobs.
150 jobs to go at Cork wireless firm
Option Wireless is to cut 150 jobs at its plant in Cork as part of a cost-cutting plan by its Belgium-based parent company.
Option Wireless, which makes wireless communications products, said the facility at the Kilbarry Industrial Estate would retain 22 people.
The Cork plant has been responsible for customising the company's products, mainly by adding software. Its activities are to be transferred to what the company called 'lower cost' regions in Asia.
Option said the first lay-offs were likely to take place in January next year, with further redundancies at the end of March.
