Local jobs boost with Kilkenny based company set to almost double its workforce this year

Cartoon Saloon’s hoping to almost double its workforce this year.

The globally renowned award-winning animation studio, which has made the Oscars shortlist on five occasions, currently hires 123 people at its Kilkenny city base.

But as its team works on a range of productions which are at various stages they expect to add another 100 staff members to their books across 2025.  (Keep an eye on their website here).

Company Chief Operations Officer Catherine Roycroft joined our Matt O’Keeffe on this morning’s The KCLR Daily to discuss this and more;