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Co Cork-based outsourcing services provider Abtran is to create 250 graduate-level jobs at a new research and developmental centre by the end of next year.

he ten-year old company already employs 600 people providing business services to Irish and international clients including BSkyB, ESB and Hibernian Aviva Health. Its annual turnover is close to €30 million.