There is speculation that around 100 jobs are to be lost at Merck Sharp and Dohme in Brinny in Co Cork.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny begins a three-day visit to the US today, the setpiece of which will be a speech to Harvard about the Irish economy and political leadership.

THE devastating news that almost 1,000 people are to lose their jobs in the Aviva insurance company over the next two years has left the workforce in a state of shock matched only by a deep sense of confusion.

ALMOST 400 jobs are to be created in Cork and Carlow in the hotel and pharmaceutical sectors.

Almost 400 jobs are expected to be created in Cork and Carlow as a result of significant investments due to be announced later today.

PLANNING permission is being sought for a biotechnology park that could yield up to 3,500 jobs.

MERCK Sharp and Dohme is seeking 60 voluntary redundancies from its 400 employees in Ballydine, Tipperary.

The giant pharmaceutical company Merck, Sharp, and Dohme is to shed 60 jobs at its south Tipperary plant at Ballydine.

MEP Kathy Sinnott today welcomed the decision by a Co Tipperary-based drug firm to co-operate with a new inquiry into animal health problems on a local farm.

THE 85 complaints to the Irish Medicines Board (IMB) about the controversial painkiller Vioxx are just the tip of the iceberg, a solicitor warned yesterday.

ANOTHER 150 jobs are to be announced for the south-east today in an expected boom for Waterford to be confirmed by Health Minister, Micheál Martin.