Established in Galway in late 2016, the growth at MathWorks Ireland will see it add additional jobs in 2019.

Some 675 jobs are to be created following massive investment in the biopharmaceutical and software sectors in Cork, Dublin, and Galway.

THE news that biopharma company GE Healthcare will create up to 500 jobs through a €150m investment at the GE BioPark in Cork deserves the warmest of welcomes and must provoke a considerable degree of optimism around the region’s future.