Eve Kelliher gets the inside track from leading interior designer Deirdre Whelan.

Oxfam has called for swifter action against tax avoidance by multinationals after its research showed pharmaceutical firms used Irish tax law to reduce the amount of corporation tax they paid — to zero in one case.

Up to 500 new jobs are set to be created at the Abbott pharmaceutical plant in Donegal Town.

Ireland’s €1.2bn infant formula industry has been accused of exploiting fears among vulnerable populations to gain market share and adding unnecessary extra ingredients purely to charge a premium price.

Pharmaceutical giant Merck’s announcement of 330 jobs for Cork and Carlow is evidence that multinationals’ fear of US president Donald Trump’s policies are easing — but there could be a threat to Ireland looming from French president Emmanuel Macron, an economist has warned.

New figures show that three units of Irish-based drug giant UDG Healthcare received payments totalling over €112m from the HSE in 2013.

Mylan is buying Abbott Laboratories’ generic-drug business and forming a new company that will be incorporated in the Netherlands, giving the new operation a lower- cost tax base.

Clonmel Chamber of Commerce has said the decision to cut more than 200 jobs at Abbott in Tipperary will have far-reaching effects outside the county.

More than 200 jobs are to go at a healthcare manufacturing plant in Tipperary thanks to an “adjustment” in operations to put a focus on “innovative” medical devices.

A leading pharmaceutical and medical devices firm is to cut 200 jobs in Clonmel, Co Tipperary.

More than 3,500 jobs are up for grabs at a major recruitment fair in Dublin today.

Some of Ireland’s leading employers will gather in Dublin’s Convention Centre on Saturday to offer graduates up to 3,500 positions.

A total of 180 voluntary redundancies are to be sought at the Abbott plant in Sligo.

Abbott Diagnostics has this morning announced 29 redundancies at its diagnostics plant in Sligo.

Abbott Laboratories has reported earnings that beat analysts’ estimates and raised its 2012 forecast as sales jumped more than expected for its top product.

Ireland’s plan to develop its health innovation hub will see the pharmaceutical sector surpass its record €55bn annual exports, according to John Perry, the minister for small business.

PRE-TAX profits at the main Irish arm of medical and pharmaceutical product giant Abbott last year fell 39% to €240.1m.

THE Limerick-based engineering group, Kirby Engineering stated yesterday that 2010 was “a relatively good year” for the group in spite of pre-tax profits declining by 34% to €1 million.

ENTERPRISE Ireland’s trade missions in 2012 will focus on the engineering and construction opportunities being created by soaring global demand for food.

CHINA, Africa and other emerging economies will be core targets for new dairy products developed at the new Dairy Innovation Centre in Fermoy, Co Cork.

BEING recognised as one of Ireland’s best workplaces for the eighth year in a row is a rare achievement, and an honour that Abbott Ireland does not take lightly. Margaret Morrissey, Country HR Director, credits the company’s commitment to progressive work practices as central to its continued success in this area.

AN Israeli company, Medinol Ltd, has lost a High Court claim that a rival firm with a manufacturing plant in Galway infringed a patent on a medical device used in coronary surgery.

Budgets are tight and bonuses are scarce but this hasn’t stopped Irish companies from getting into the festive spirit for charity. Niamh Hennessy takes a look at what firms did for charity this Christmas.

Some 200 new jobs are to be created in Letterkenny, it was announced today.

ABBOTT Laboratories — one of the longest-serving foreign multinational companies with a presence in the state — has warned that further Government healthcare spending cuts could hamper its financial position here, after seeing pre-tax profits in its Irish operations fall by €9 million last year.

IRISH farmers and food companies received more than €1.9 billion in subsidies from the European Union last year with the biggest recipient, the Irish Dairy Board co-op, receiving almost €8 million.

PHARMACEUTICAL giant, Abbott Laboratories Ireland increased its pre-tax profits by 67% to €13.6 million last year.

ENERGY, Communications and Natural Resources Minister Eamon Ryan will today aim to forge links with green technology firms in Silicon Valley in the US.

A project aiming to get more people with arthritis into the workplace has been launched after a survey found almost seven out of 10 sufferers cannot hold down full-time jobs.

Abbott today announced the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of the XIENCE™ V Everolimus Eluting Coronary Stent System for the treatment of coronary artery disease.

One of the largest US multinationals in Ireland has announced 500 job cuts at its Galway plant.

One of the largest US multinationals in Ireland is expected to announce job cuts at its Irish operations later today.

MORE than three million babies around the world enjoy the high quality of milk from herds in Cavan and Monaghan.

The medical and pharmaceutical firm Abbott Laboratories has announced plans to sell part of its diagnostic division, which operates plants in Longford and Sligo.

US pharmaceutical firm Abbott has announced plans for the further expansion of its manufacturing plant in Clonmel.

The ISEQ Index closed 62.31 points stronger at 7,581.78 yesterday as the banking and construction stocks finished in positive territory.

Abbott Pharmaceutical and AstraZeneca have been granted the US rights to use Elan’s NanoCrystal Technology to develop fixed-dose combination products.

Pharmaceuticals giant Astra Zeneca is this week expected to announce a deal to acquire smaller rival Cambridge Antibody Technology, it was reported today.

A Cork-based engineering company has just announced that 40 highly skilled jobs are to be created in the area in the science and engineering sectors.

THE European Union has cleared the way for the IDA to grant €13 million in aid to Abbott Labs.

Mining giant Anglo American led the London market higher today after promising to return $1bn (€829m) to investors next year.