“My mum said, ‘Why would you go to a manufacturing plant where you’re the only woman?’”

Hillary Clinton is airing a campaign advertisement attacking the last so-called tax inversion by a US company and specifically mentioned Ireland as the destination to avoid paying taxes.

US car battery and building efficiency specialist, Johnson Controls has agreed to merge with Cork-based fire prevention and security products company Tyco International and move its headquarters to Ireland in a tax-saving ‘inversion’ deal.