Shares in Johnson & Johnson, which employs 2,200 people at Irish sales facilities and plants, fell after the company reported disappointing pharmaceutical and consumer product sales.

Off-shore windfarms and the use of solar energy should be considered instead of placing large wind turbines near rural communities in Co Cork.

Special Olympics Ireland last night saluted a multinational firm and its workers in Cork and Limerick for their support over the past 10 years and for the upcoming national games to be held in Limerick.

Twice as tall as Ireland’s tallest building — Cork’s 17-storey Elysian tower — and now also set to be taller than Dublin’s needle-like Spire, are each of Cork’s harbour’s just emerging, elevated wind turbine hubs and spinning vanes, all in the vicinity of Ringaskiddy.