Eli Lilly to create 1,500 jobs with $1bn investment in Limerick facility

Lilly said its Limerick site will operate at 35% lower energy intensity, use 40% less water, and produce 15% less waste when compared to traditional pharma manufacturing sites

Eli Lilly chief executive and chairman David Ricks, Enterprise, Trade, and Employment Minister Simon Coveney, and IDA interim chief executive Mary Buckley at the announcement of Lilly's $1bn (€927m) investment in a medicine manufacturing site in Limerick, which it said will deliver almost 1,500 jobs. Picture: Daragh Mc Sweeney/Provision

US biopharma giant Eli Lilly and Co has announced a $1bn (€927m) investment in a medicine manufacturing site in Limerick, which it said will deliver almost 1,500 new jobs.

Lilly already employs almost 2,700 people at Kinsale and Little Island, Co Cork. It said it aims to generate 1,200 jobs during the construction phase of its Limerick campus in Raheen and create 300 new jobs once it is fully operational.