Hundreds of flights to and from Chicago’s O’Hare, one of the world’s busiest airports, continue to be disrupted following an attempted suicide by an employee who set fire to an air traffic facility.

CORK-based US wireless technology manufacturer Harris Corporation has announced it is to close its Little Island plant next June with the loss of 119 jobs.

A US technology firm is to shut down a major Irish plant with the loss of almost 120 jobs, it emerged today.