Residents in a rural part of north Kerry have become involved in a planning row with a leading building materials firm over plans for a new asphalt factory near their homes.

A warehouse in Knockbridge was searched in the early hours of this morning in an intelligence-led operation.

Pre-tax profits at the Cork-based unit of sweet maker Ferrero last year decreased 11% to €2.44m, as revenues dipped.

A busted “backyard” drug factory linked to the Kinahan crime cartel was capable of producing up to 7,000 ecstasy pills every hour, gardaí believe.

More than 120 workers have been injured and at least one is missing after a fire at a huge factory in the Philippines.

The growth in the output of Irish factories slowed dramatically in May, a monthly survey of Irish purchasing managers has showed.

Representatives of SIPTU and Unite will attend talks at the Workplace Relations Commission over the Cadbury's dispute.

Irish manufacturing continued to grow last month, but the pace of expansion was the slowest for two years — raising fears about the the outlook for expansion.

A man who wounded three people before storming into the central Kansas factory where he worked and shooting 15 others, killing three of them, had just been served a protection from abuse order that likely triggered the attack, a sheriff said.

A survey yesterday showed the pace of manufacturing growth here slowed last month, as an economist has warned that the housing crisis could impede economic recovery.

A man in his 20's is being treated for injuries sustained in an explosion outside Youghal in Co Cork this morning.

A teenager has been rescued 50 hours after getting trapped under the rubble of a four-storey factory which collapsed in eastern Pakistan.

Survivors trapped in the rubble of a collapsed Pakistani factory pleaded for help on their mobiles even as rescuers said they feared the death toll of 18 could rise in the latest tragedy to spotlight poor safety standards in south Asia.

At least 18 people were killed and up to 150 trapped when a factory collapsed near the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, officials said, adding to a number of industrial disasters to hit the South Asian nation.

A third teenager has been arrested following a fire at a factory in Drogheda, Co Louth.

A slump in manufacturing in July and a sharp widening of the trade deficit show Britain’s economic recovery is losing some steam and may prompt the Bank of England to stress that it is in no rush to raise interest rates from crisis-era lows.

The number of people killed in a huge fireworks factory explosion in north-eastern Spain has risen to six after the body of a missing man was found.

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