Pfizer likely to add more Irish jobs as pharma taps Covid vaccine boom                

A pedestrian walk past Pfizer world headquarters in New York yesterday. File Picture: PA

Pfizer may likely add more Irish jobs on top of the 300 new posts the US pharmaceutical giant announced in Cork and Leinster last week, as the country benefits indirectly from the positive early results of the trial of its Covid-19 vaccine.

A Pfizer laboratory in Grange Castle in Dublin is playing a key part in assessing the quality of the manufacturing of the potential vaccine in Europe which Pfizer is developing with its partner BioNTech of Germany.