Around 364 Irish-based jobs are under threat at cloud computing company VMWare.
It follows the recent acquisition of the firm by semiconductor company Broadcom.
VMWare employs more than 1,000 people in Ireland with the bulk of them based at its site in Ballincollig in Cork.
The proposed redundancies were raised in the Dáil today by Solidarity and Socialist Party TD Mick Barry who described the news as a ‘Christmas bombshell’.
“It is a devastating blow to the workforce, the vast majority of…