Pharma firm to create 200 jobs

US-founded drug firm, Jazz Pharmaceuticals is to spend up to €50m on a new manufacturing facility in Co Roscommon; creating more than 200 jobs in the process.

The move marks the first time the biopharmaceutical company — which specialises in treatments for unmet medical needs — has ever built its own manufacturing and development site, with each of its existing facilities having been acquired or inherited.

Construction at the 55,000sq ft, 17-acre site in Monksland will begin immediately, with it expected to be fully operational by 2016.