Reasons to be positive in Waterford?

MentalMario

Max Powers wrote: »

Early Christmas present....just saw on their site that Metalman have ordered a canning machine, cans a bit of a novelty on the craft/quality beer scene in Ireland but not so in the US. Awesome!

Would have rathered bottles but it's a step in the right direction. Now just to get a MEtalman tap in the top floor of The Kazbar and we're sorted

The Bowling Alley

MentalMario wrote: »

Would have rathered bottles but it's a step in the right direction. Now just to get a MEtalman tap in the top floor of The Kazbar and we're sorted

Cans are actually better.

MentalMario

The Bowling Alley wrote: »

Cans are actually better.

In general, I think bottles are a lot nicer than cans.

Not sure if it'll be different for craft beer though.

Tallcarrie

Great news for Ardkeen Quality Foodstore today, winning Best artisan food/greengrocer in Irish Times Best Shop 2014

'Ardkeen Quality Food Store
It’s hard to imagine a grocery store being able to survive in the shadow of giants such as Tesco and Lidl, but Ardkeen Quality Food Store in Waterford is thriving'

comeraghs

Positive news expected from Genzyme in Waterford

Waterford looks set for a big jobs boost as Genzyme, the biotechnology company who already employ over 500 people in the city, plan another major expansion.WLR FM News understands that the Waterford factory is in line for a huge new investment that could create hundreds of new jobs and see hundreds of millions of euro spent on expanding facilities on the Old Kilmeaden Road.While the company has not responded to requests for comment, it’s believed that workers at the factory were told about the project in recent days and speculation has since grown locally about the scale of the plans.The IDA referred requests for comment to Genzyme.In February 2013, Sanofi - owners of Genzyme since 2011 - announced a 44 million euro investment in Waterford.The latest positive news expected from Genzyme comes as anticipation grows about a major investment announcement for a nearby IDA site that’s believed to be earmarked for West Pharma, a US company who supply the pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical and medical device sectors.


WLR website.

fricatus

Grow HQ in Ardkeen has reached its FundIt target:

http://fundit.ie/project/giys-grow-hq

Max Powers

fricatus wrote: »

Grow HQ in Ardkeen has reached its FundIt target:

http://fundit.ie/project/giys-grow-hq

Wow, 20000 was ambitious, delighted they made it. will be a good attraction when done

Tallcarrie

Garter Lane Arts Centre celebrated its 30th anniversary this week with a visit from actor Niall Toibin, who opened it in the teeth of a recession on 8th Sept 1984

Finnbar01

This involves the county just as much as the city.

1. Comely Mountains & Corrie Lakes
2. The Viking Triangle
3. Mary Wall’s Picnics
4. The Copper Coast
5. The humble blaa
6. The awesome village of Ardmore
7. The Waterford & Suir Valley Railway
8. Food, glorious food
9. A Dip (or Daytrip) in Dunmore East
10. This fella


http://www.independent.ie/life/travel/ireland/10-great-reasons-to-visit-waterford-30565355.html

reni10

Great News for the Waterford Tech Industry with Red Hat buying FeedHenry for $82million!
http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/waterford-software-firm-feedhenry-sold-to-red-hat-for-635m-30597295.html

Finally there is a major Technology Company with an interest in Waterford and hopefully this now helps all those other Startups in Waterford and the South East get the notice they deserve.

BuilderPlumber

reni10 wrote: »

Great News for the Waterford Tech Industry with Red Hat buying FeedHenry for $82million!
http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/waterford-software-firm-feedhenry-sold-to-red-hat-for-635m-30597295.html

Finally there is a major Technology Company with an interest in Waterford and hopefully this now helps all those other Startups in Waterford and the South East get the notice they deserve.

All well and grand for the guys who own it and their American techie buddies but this type of thing does not deliver the ordinary jobs required for ordinary people. Jobs are often created in areas like IT and engineering that are virtually impossible to fill. We should instead concentrate on providing more down to earth services that create jobs where Irish employees can be found to fill them. Many of these IT and technological engineering positions are filled by Americans, Germans, Russians, ex-USSR people, Chinese, etc. and NOT Irish. It is rocket science! And those who can fill such positions usually are those educated by superpowers and space exploring nations. As said in a previous post, what does advanced computing do for most people in West Cork, Leitrim, Mayo or Clare?

O Riain

BuilderPlumber wrote: »

All well and grand for the guys who own it and their American techie buddies but this type of thing does not deliver the ordinary jobs required for ordinary people. Jobs are often created in areas like IT and engineering that are virtually impossible to fill. We should instead concentrate on providing more down to earth services that create jobs where Irish employees can be found to fill them. Many of these IT and technological engineering positions are filled by Americans, Germans, Russians, ex-USSR people, Chinese, etc. and NOT Irish. It is rocket science! And those who can fill such positions usually are those educated by superpowers and space exploring nations. As said in a previous post, what does advanced computing do for most people in West Cork, Leitrim, Mayo or Clare?

What are you on about? Loads of local people are involved in that company, educated locally and facilitated by W.I.T.

They are the some super human overlords like you make them out to be.

I'm in engineering and the opportunities are good, but I still wish I was involved in computing - better money and way more opportunities.

There are plenty of people educated in computing out in W.I.T. and now in really good jobs. I can't understand people that see the tide has changed, see the opportunities there, but choose not to go with it. If it's ability people are worried about, up-skilling in a new career is not one bit easy, but it is not impossible and beats sitting around waiting for the jobs to come to you.

fricatus

BuilderPlumber wrote: »

All well and grand for the guys who own it and their American techie buddies but this type of thing does not deliver the ordinary jobs required for ordinary people. Jobs are often created in areas like IT and engineering that are virtually impossible to fill. We should instead concentrate on providing more down to earth services that create jobs where Irish employees can be found to fill them. Many of these IT and technological engineering positions are filled by Americans, Germans, Russians, ex-USSR people, Chinese, etc. and NOT Irish. It is rocket science! And those who can fill such positions usually are those educated by superpowers and space exploring nations. As said in a previous post, what does advanced computing do for most people in West Cork, Leitrim, Mayo or Clare?

What a load of rubbish! Tons of "ordinary people" work in IT, including me. And lots of them are Irish! Who'd have thought we'd have brains like those Americans and ex-USSR types, eh?

And another thing to consider: even if you were right, and there wasn't a single Irish person working there, the effect of having 500 or 1,000 highly skilled and well paid positions in the area would create a huge economic spin-off. They all have to be housed, and they drink in local pubs, eat in local restaurants, and shop in local shops. Plenty of "ordinary jobs" are created and sustained this way.

This is serious good news, and is potentially a huge boost for the city and the region. Companies like Red Hat are serious players, and if they're impressed with the location, who knows what divisions and services they could be locating here in 10 years' time. What's more, if an executive with Red Hat who's been to Waterford and loved it moves to another company who's thinking of setting up in Ireland... well that's pretty much how FDI chooses where to locate!

O Riain

fricatus wrote: »

What a load of rubbish! Tons of "ordinary people" work in IT, including me. And lots of them are Irish! Who'd have thought we'd have brains like those Americans and ex-USSR types, eh?

And another thing to consider: even if you were right, and there wasn't a single Irish person working there, the effect of having 500 or 1,000 highly skilled and well paid positions in the area would create a huge economic spin-off. They all have to be housed, and they drink in local pubs, eat in local restaurants, and shop in local shops. Plenty of "ordinary jobs" are created and sustained this way.

This is serious good news, and is potentially a huge boost for the city and the region. Companies like Red Hat are serious players, and if they're impressed with the location, who knows what divisions and services they could be locating here in 10 years' time. What's more, if an executive with Red Hat who's been to Waterford and loved it moves to another company who's thinking of setting up in Ireland... well that's pretty much how FDI chooses where to locate!

I'm not totally up to speed on the whole thing (barely know who Redhat are but know they are big) but that guys post is ridiculous to the extreme. Almost seems like a WUM.

reni10

BuilderPlumber wrote: »

All well and grand for the guys who own it and their American techie buddies but this type of thing does not deliver the ordinary jobs required for ordinary people. Jobs are often created in areas like IT and engineering that are virtually impossible to fill. We should instead concentrate on providing more down to earth services that create jobs where Irish employees can be found to fill them. Many of these IT and technological engineering positions are filled by Americans, Germans, Russians, ex-USSR people, Chinese, etc. and NOT Irish. It is rocket science! And those who can fill such positions usually are those educated by superpowers and space exploring nations. As said in a previous post, what does advanced computing do for most people in West Cork, Leitrim, Mayo or Clare?

The reality of it is that 99% of the people working in the Tech industry in this area are from Waterford and the South East or have relocated to here from other parts of the country, that is the fact!

There are also hundreds of IT Graduates coming out of WIT every year so is it not great news to have a large IT company now with a presence in Waterford?

Posts like the one above are very disturbing in terms of wanting to turn what is obviously good news for the area into something you can moan about!

fiachr_a

BuilderPlumber wrote: »

All well and grand for the guys who own it and their American techie buddies but this type of thing does not deliver the ordinary jobs required for ordinary people. Jobs are often created in areas like IT and engineering that are virtually impossible to fill. We should instead concentrate on providing more down to earth services that create jobs where Irish employees can be found to fill them. Many of these IT and technological engineering positions are filled by Americans, Germans, Russians, ex-USSR people, Chinese, etc. and NOT Irish. It is rocket science! And those who can fill such positions usually are those educated by superpowers and space exploring nations. As said in a previous post, what does advanced computing do for most people in West Cork, Leitrim, Mayo or Clare?

Ever wonder why these jobs are impossible to fill? Bet you send your kids to a school full of female teachers? Bet your kids can recite why 'Jesus loves us' and also recite the Lord's prayer in Irish? Bet none of your kids know the difference between c# and c++? The reason why foreigners are taking all our IT jobs is because of our dumbed down education system. Even our 3rd-level colleges are sub-standard compared to ones in other countries. There was an article in the paper last weekend and some Professor said there are less women now studying IT in Irish colleges than back in the 1980s. If Sorcha or Natalie want to waste their time studying for a degree in Health Promotion then they can't be complaining that there are no bleedin' jobs!

reni10

So there will supposedly be good news this morning for Waterford on the jobs front with the new West Pharma plant probably being announced which will be built out next to Genyme.

Hopefully we are looking at 500+ jobs to come online in the next 12-24 months as it is big job announcements like these that are needed.

KevIRL

150 jobs possibly rising to 250

KevIRL

150 new pharma jobs for Waterford; maybe 250 if the company, West Pharma from the US, continues to expand. New green field site near Genzyme

From Damien tiernan twitter

Hoffmans

Not exactly an announcement this story has been out for weeks and originally it was supposedly 500 jobs now only 150

A bit of an unanouncement....

fricatus

Hoffmans wrote: »

Not exactly an announcement this story has been out for weeks and originally it was supposedly 500 jobs now only 150

A bit of an unanouncement....

You never know with these things though. Sometimes they bump along for a few years, and then fizzle out, like BISYS/Citi Financial, and sometimes they grow beyond all initial expectations.

The fact that there are similar companies in a cluster nearby (particularly Genzyme) would give me hope though. It will make recruitment for specialist positions much easier for one.

Digital Society

BuilderPlumber wrote: »

All well and grand for the guys who own it and their American techie buddies but this type of thing does not deliver the ordinary jobs required for ordinary people. Jobs are often created in areas like IT and engineering that are virtually impossible to fill. We should instead concentrate on providing more down to earth services that create jobs where Irish employees can be found to fill them. Many of these IT and technological engineering positions are filled by Americans, Germans, Russians, ex-USSR people, Chinese, etc. and NOT Irish. It is rocket science! And those who can fill such positions usually are those educated by superpowers and space exploring nations. As said in a previous post, what does advanced computing do for most people in West Cork, Leitrim, Mayo or Clare?

Ill simplify it down. I make 1000 Euro per week in IT. I spend 800 Euro per week on goods and services including Builders and Plumbers in Waterford, West Cork, Leitrim and Mayo.

Guess what happens next.

Do you see now how it works and that we all cant be Builders and Plumbers?

Max Powers

Hoffmans wrote: »

Not exactly an announcement this story has been out for weeks and originally it was supposedly 500 jobs now only 150

A bit of an unanouncement....

Great stuff, potential to grow and attract more.

wellboytoo

Digital Society wrote: »

Ill simplify it down. I make 1000 Euro per week in IT. I spend 800 Euro per week on goods and services including Builders and Plumbers in Waterford, West Cork, Leitrim and Mayo.

Guess what happens next.

Do you see now how it works and that we all cant be Builders and Plumbers?

That's simplifying it???????????????????

KevIRL

The Metalman lads doing us proud (yet again) on Nationwide

zurbfoundation

KevIRL wrote: »

The Metalman lads doing us proud (yet again) on Nationwide

saw it - good piece, great beer

BBM77

http://www.wlrfm.com/news/local/12622-100-new-jobs-in-waterford.html

More good news on the jobs front. I know people will knock call centre jobs but not everybody has the ability to get high skilled jobs.

fricatus

BBM77 wrote: »

http://www.wlrfm.com/news/local/12622-100-new-jobs-in-waterford.html

More good news on the jobs front. I know people will knock call centre jobs but not everybody has the ability to get high skilled jobs.

They're not necessarily low-skilled jobs either of course. The term "call-centre job" means about as little as "factory job" does. In a factory you could be putting widgets in a box all day, or programming and calibrating the machine that makes the widgets - there's the same sort of variation within and between call centres.

fiachr_a

BBM77 wrote: »

I know people will knock call centre jobs but not everybody has the ability to get high skilled jobs.

True, but what's the point in trying to have a local university when these jobs are all that's available?

Jamie2k9

fiachr_a wrote: »

True, but what's the point in trying to have a local university when these jobs are all that's available?

Do we have a university? No. Until then nobody can be a snob about jobs....