Tanaiste Leo Varadkar has said that his "thoughts are with the people receiving bad news" as hundreds of Irish jobs at Twitter are set be cut.
This morning Twitter began laying off members of its Irish workforce with some staff in its Dublin office receiving emails telling them that they were being made redundant. Many employees also found that they were disconnected from the company's email and other internal systems, and the Dublin office was temporarily closed.
Tanaiste Leo Varadkar reacted to the upsetting news this evening, describing it as a "hard day" for employees at Twitter in Dublin. He tweeted: "My thoughts are with the people who are receiving bad news today, this is a hard day for them.
