Restructuring events
European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
State-owned transport company Irish Rail is to recruit 100 new train drivers over the next two years.
The recruitment drive comes on the back of government investment to increase Irish Rail’s number of trains and expand its network around the Republic, in order to boost public transport.
The new roles will be based in across the country, in Dublin, Athlone, Cork, Limerick, Galway, Waterford and Westport. The company intends highlighting the advantage of the posts to women, who have been increasingly joining the company as train drivers in recent years.
Irish Rail has ordered 185 new carriages and plans to add 750 over the coming decade.
Eurofound (2023), Irish Rail, Business expansion in Ireland, factsheet number 200835, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/200835.
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