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Taoiseach announces new jobs for Mayo

Financial industry education, research and publishing company to create around 40 jobs over 3 years

Taoiseach Enda Kenny today announced that the Lafferty Group is to locate key educational and publishing activities for the global banking industry in Westport, Co Mayo creating around 40 jobs over the next 3 years.

The Westport activities will include the research and content division of the International Academy of Retail Banking (IARB), a new Lafferty business that began its international roll-out last year. The IARB has clients in over twenty countries.

The worldwide content for the Academy programmes will be researched and developed in the Westport office.

The Academy faculty is drawn mainly from the ranks of current and former retail bankers, card and payments executives, as well as from academia across the globe. The Academy provides education through classroom tuition within individual banks, mainly in the English language. It also provides open courses attended by executives from multiple banks.

Making the announcement the Taoiseach said:

This announcement by the Lafferty Group is great news for Mayo and for the Western region. The region offers excellent opportunities to companies locating here. Our talented and flexible workforce, which is of particular interest to service providers, is one of the many strengths that makes Ireland’s offering unique.

Read the Taoiseach's speech from the announcement here.