More than 200 jobs have been announced by nine North American and European companies .

The new positions will be spread across a number of sectors with a range of activities including software engineering ,finance ,sales ,technology,customer support ,operations and marketing .

Among the companies announcing jobs was Smartfrog with 35 jobs in Dublin, Endura Technologies a fabless semiconductor firm providing power managed solutions to the microelectronics industry with 40 jobs ,Macstadium which is adding 30 jobs at its European data centre in Dublin and Hospitality property management system software firm Cloudbeds which is taking 20 people on.

Enegenetics a global provider of talent development solutions is opening a new EMEA headquarters in Dubkins IFSC .Compar a specialised image processing and robotics provider is establishing an engineering development and sales centra in Waterford with the creation of 15 jobs .