The Jobs Minister Richard Bruton has officially announced that a hundred new jobs are on the way to Fethard in Co Tipperary.

Meat provider Ribworld is creating the positions as part of an 8 million euro investment programme supported by the Department of Jobs through Enterprise Ireland.

A hundred new positions are also coming on stream at global software company SolarWinds in Mahon in Cork and SPAR has announced the creation of up to a thousand new posts with plans to open 50 new shops across the country by 2016.

Managing Director of Ribworld John Walshe told Tipp FM that they have ambitious plans for the company over the coming years: