Healthcare company MSD Ireland has promoted Marie Martin to plant manager of MSD Carlow, with immediate effect.

Young people are snapping up apprenticeships, availing of the chance to “earn and learn” across a range of skills areas not usually associated with the in-house training model.

Multinational healthcare and pharmaceutical giant MSD has been granted approval for a significant expansion to its existing manufacturing facilities in Carlow, which will allow for the generation of almost 300 additional jobs.

Outsourcing firm Voxpro said it is to create 400 jobs in Cork as it opens a new office alongside its headquarters at City Gate in Mahon.

The Court of Appeal has by a 2-1 majority refused to grant an injunction preventing the distribution of a generic alternative to a cholesterol-reducing drug at less than one-tenth of its current price.

The decision of Merck Sharp Dohme, or MSD as it’s better known in these parts, is more than good news for Dublin but also for Ireland, writes Paul Mills.

There is good news on the job front for County Wicklow today.

Cadbury Ireland is among a growing number of Irish-based companies reported to have been hit by the latest global cyber attack, writes Cormac O'Keeffe.

Cadbury Ireland is among a growing number of Irish-based companies reported to have been hit by the latest global cyber attack.

As Irish employment numbers continue to rise and economic recovery continues to take hold, the issue of health and wellbeing in the workplace is increasingly in focus.

Pharmaceutical giant Merck’s announcement of 330 jobs for Cork and Carlow is evidence that multinationals’ fear of US president Donald Trump’s policies are easing — but there could be a threat to Ireland looming from French president Emmanuel Macron, an economist has warned.

Enda Kenny is facing a growing backlash over claims he has “no plan” to cope with the escalating Brexit crisis and has “sat on his hands” as the situation unfolded.

Kenny accused of having ‘no discernible plan, vision or direction’.

The cost of poor reproductive performance in the dairy herd can be quite significant, arising from reduced milk production, increased costs for replacement of culled animals, and veterinary intervention and medicine costs.

THE difference between optimism and wishful thinking is the difference between achievement and disappointment. It is also the difference between building on solid foundations or on sand. 

As many as 600 new jobs are to be created across the country following four separate announcements.

MSD is to create 200 new jobs in Carlow, Cork and Tipperary.

Three counties are set for a significant employment boost today with healthcare company MSD to announce 200 new jobs across a range of disciplines in Cork, Carlow, and Tipperary.

“Up the airy mountain, down the rushing glen,we dare not go a hunting, for fear of little men.”

Cork software company Global Shares yesterday announced a three-year expansion plan that will create up to 80 additional roles at its headquarters in Clonakilty, West Cork.

Doctors and nurses should use less jargon when talking to patients, according to a survey that reveals one in five patients have taken the wrong amount of medication at least once.

Global pharmaceutical firm MSD’s announcement that it is to close its Swords plant with the potential loss of 570 jobs comes less than nine months after it confirmed 280 people were to be let go with the closure of its Wicklow facility.

Some 570 jobs at a pharmaceutical giant are being axed and scores of others are under threat at a major fashion retailer.

It may seem a long way from West Cork to the giddy heights of corporate HQ in New Jersey, but Fergal O’Dowd doesn’t see it that way.

Pre-tax profits at an Irish arm of pharmaceutical giant, Merck last year decreased by 26% to €141m, new figures show.

Pharmaceutical giant MSD has announced a €6.5m investment in ‘green’ technology at its Co Cork plant that will deliver huge savings, allow it to ramp up production if needed, and create jobs.

THE first quarter of 2013 has provided a major boost for fledgling start-up, SMART Visibility — mainly on the back of winning the SAP Innovation Challenge in Las Vegas last month.

Wicklow suffered a double jobs blow yesterday with confirmation that MSD is to close its plant with the loss of 280 jobs, and news that at least 58 staff are to be made redundant at a disability support service.

Fianna Fáíl spokesman for jobs, Dara Calleary, has called on Minister Richard Bruton to make an 'urgent response' following the loss of 280 jobs at MSD's plant in Wicklow.

Two hundred and eighty jobs are being cut at a pharmaceutical company in Co Wicklow.

Pharmaceutical giant Merck Sharp and Dohme (MSD) is to axe 90 jobs at its Co Cork plant — almost a fifth of its workforce — over the next six months.

Global healthcare company Merck Sharp and Dohme (MSD) is to cut its workforce by up to 90 over the next six months.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny will today announce the creation of 40 new jobs at Irish start-up company BuyersClub.ie.

International healthcare giant MSD — formerly Merck Sharp and &Dohme — is to strengthen its Irish operations via an additional €7m investment in its Carlow facility.

Eight drug companies have agreed to create a pool of patented information to spur new research into 21 tropical diseases and conditions, UN officials have said.

INTERNATIONAL business is focussing on Ireland as the first that can emerge from the eurozone countries suffering “difficulties,” Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said.

The Taoiseach Enda Kenny has opened a €100m pharmaceutical facility in Ballydine, Co Tipperary.