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Financial services company gears up for future growth
FINANCIAL services company JRI America Inc, which established a software development operation in Tralee in 2011, this week geared up for the next phase of growth in the town with a move to new, larger premises at Kerry Technology Park. The new premises were officially opened by Minister for Diaspora Affairs Jimmy Deenihan. JRI America, Inc, is a subsidiary of the Japanese IT financial services company Japan Research Institute
Ltd. (JRI) which is the specialist IT subsidiary of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG). SMFG owns Japan’s second-largest bank Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) by asset size and is a Fortune Global 200 company. It offers a broad range of financial services, primarily banking related. The group is also engaged in leasing, securities, credit cards, mortgage securitization, venture capital and other credit related
businesses. SMFG employs 68,000 people worldwide with a stated objective of further global expansion. The Tralee operation supports the group’s Western Hemisphere IT operations including US, Europe, Moscow, Dubai and other markets. The team in Tralee has grown to almost 70 staff since the initial announcement in late 2011 with the staff employed there providing support for a broad range of
Applause for Killarney’s gangsters and molls IT PROVED a real talking point over the past month and tributes are still pouring in for Killarney’s budding young singers, dancers and actors who brought Bugsy Malone to life. One of the most popular musicals ever made, Bugsy Malone was staged in Killarney Racecourse for four nights. The production was performed by transition-year students from St Brendan’s College and St Brigid’s
Presentation Secondary School. “This was the first time that both schools have worked together on a musical and it was the performance of the year!” said Mairead Lucey, deputy principal of St Brigid’s. Bugsy Malone is a 1976 British musical gangster film, which was directed and written by filmmaker Alan Parker. “The success of the film, which famously featured an all-child cast, inspired numer-
ous stage productions around the world,” said Mairead. Set in prohibition-era New York, the film is loosely based on events from the early 1920s to 1931 but specifically on the exploits of real-life gangsters like Al Capone and Bugs Moran, as dramatised in cinema. The students were directed by Valerie O’Leary, Mish O’Donoghue, Niamh O’Connell and Rosie Healy and supported by the staff in both
Scenes from Bugsy Malone performed at Killarney Racecourse. PICTURE: KONRAD PAPROCKI
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Minister for Diaspora Affairs Jimmy Deenihan performed the opening of the new premises of JRI America Inc. Picture: Domnick Walsh
functions including software development, quality assurance, network support, data centre support and technical customer service activities. The move to the new 14,000sq ft premises is part of its strategic plan to position the company for growth into the future in Tralee. The development is supported by the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation through IDA Ireland.
Mary Theresa Doyle receiving her 30-year service pin in the Irish Girl Guides from the regional commissioner Deirdre Henley.