Posted online: Aug 24th, 2010

The opening of a new mobile phone shop in Roscommon is proving to be good news on the Inishowen jobs front.

Digitalfone 02, the Telecom communications company based  in Buncrana who operate the 02 stores in the North and West, have announced they are to expand again with plans to open a new 02 store in Roscommon Town in October.

Francis Callagan, dealer principal for the group, said he was “delighted” to make the announcement pointing out the opening of the new store created further employment at its head office in Buncrana .

 He said: “For every new store the group opens in other parts of the country this has a knock on affect in increasing employment levels at the groups head office based in Buncrana.”

And with plans to open more stores,  includind anotrher one towards in the of this year, in other parts of the country, more jobs are in the pipeline for Buncrana.

Mr Callaghan added because of the expansion plans the group were welcoming CVs from interested persons with the suitable qualifications for placement at their two inishowen stores in Carndonagh and Buncrana .

The news comes less than a year after Digitalfone 02 created new jobs with the creation of new stores in  Ballina  Co Mayo and the complete re-fitting of its Inishowen outlets. New jobs were created in Buncrana, and Carndonagh as part of this expansion in both Retail and Sme sales while a further  positions were announced for its store in Ballina,  increasing the job numbers of people employed by the company.