Appeals have been lodged in relation to planning approval for a major mixed development at the ESB headquarters near Dublin City centre.

More than 320 jobs were today axed at an electronics plant in Cork.

THE country’s hi-tech sector was dealt another major jobs blow yesterday with the loss of almost 50 top-end IT posts.

ANOTHER of Cork’s electronics manufacturers is to close, bringing to three the number of electronics firms that have gone out of business in the city in little more than a year.

One hundred and thirty people are set to lose their jobs in Cork following the collapse of an electronics firm that has been operating in the city for more than 30 years.