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EAMONN SINNOTT
From relatively low-key contributor of about €12.5 billion Educated at the CBS primary
beginnings, computer chip in capital investment to the Irish school and St Peter’s secondary
ABOVE:
Eamonn Sinnott, and software manufacturer economy since 1990. school in Wexford, before going
Intel Intel arrived in Ireland over 25 At the helm of Intel’s Irish on to graduate from university
years ago and began operating activities is a man who grew with maths and physics
out of a warehouse in west up in Wexford town, Eamonn specialities, Eamonn worked with
Dublin while waiting for its Sinnott. He remains a frequent Digital Equipment Corporation
headquarters to be readied. in Galway before joining Intel as a
enough visitor to the streets and
Today it’s one of the country’s countryside of his native locality shift manager in 1991, starting off
at its base in Albuquerque, New
most important private-sector to know that it has as much, if not Mexico, where he became familiar
businesses, employing almost more, to offer any multi-national with the landscapes and streets
5,000 people at its huge base or smaller business, as any other made famous on Breaking Bad.
in Leixlip, Co Kildare, and a area in Europe.
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