It seems no TD is prepared to come out in support of Indaver or to come down to Ringaskiddy to face the people. 

Lee Gibson is a bright, happy boy who cannot speak, but he was in the High Court yesterday to use his hands to sign ‘thank you’ to the judge who approved a €2m interim payment for his care.

The Government will focus major road spending on projects which can support economic recovery, the transport minister has said.

The average response time for firemen to reach a fire in Co Cork is 14 minutes and five seconds, according to a report released by Cork County Council.

The Irish Maritime Development Office, operating under the auspices of the Department of Transport, has given its backing to the Port of Cork’s plans for a €100m-plus upgrade of its deep water container facilities at Ringaskiddy.

I would like to make a short but factual statement in reference to your reporting of the flight of an unmanned aircraft over Cork City which occurred on May 24. This statement offers a different point of view and serves to inform the public of the risk they were exposed to.

Pfizer has opened a new $30m (€21.6m) facility at its Ringaskiddy plant that will allow the company to manufacture the next generation of cancer, cholesterol and blood-thinning drugs.

The Port of Cork has become the first Irish port to offer a SeaFi wireless network service to the crews of all visiting commercial vessels.

This week’s announcement of a $100m investment in Pfizer plants in Dublin and Ringaskiddy is a positive move in a sector hit by consolidation and the lapse of patents on big-selling drugs like Viagra and Lipitor, reports Kyran FitzGerald

Drugs giant, Pfizer has announced a further $130m (€100m) investment in its manufacturing facilities here, heralding a significant strengthening of its commitment to its Irish operations.

A number of Chinese companies are visiting Cork this week at the invitation of Ringaskiddy-headquartered Zenith Technologies.

As partners for the past 11 years of the Cork Harbour Alliance for a Safe Environment, we were relieved at the decision of Indaver to abandon its legal challenge to An Bord Pleanála’s planning refusal for their incinerators at Ringaskiddy.

THE south-west region could lose more than €59 billion in trade in the next 25 years if the Government fails to upgrade the main road between Cork and Ringaskiddy.

WHEN Pfizer began construction of its first plant in Ringaskiddy in 1969, there was a hope that the facility producing citric acid and gluconate products would be the first of many which would ultimately make Cork and Ireland a global giant in the pharmaceutical trade.

THE Port of Cork suffered a decrease in traffic across the board last year.

EDUCATION Minister Batt O’Keeffe recently exposed chronic absenteeism in the teaching profession.

PARTS of the multi-billion euro regeneration of Cork’s docklands could be delayed by the Ringaskiddy decision.

ACCORDING to media reports, the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin has made an historic move in setting aside some places in Catholic patronage schools for non-Catholics.

IT IS a frustrating fact of scientific endeavour that some discoveries only emerge after long years of research while others just pop up out of the blue.

IRISH workers are learning the hard lessons of EU enlargement. Thousands of ‘cheap’ eastern European labourers are being employed at breathtaking pace, while long-standing indigenous workers get the boot.

Tommy Barker, Property editor

IN your letters column of March 19, under the heading ‘Incineration plan should go in the recycling bin’, you published a letter from Dorothee Krien.

Environment agency An Taisce today lodged an appeal over plans to build a toxic waste burner in Cork harbour.

THERE’S a clear need for disabled rights supported by better services.

A MAJOR pharmaceutical company celebrated its 10th birthday yesterday and the arrival of its Swiss boss.

Johnson & Johnson subsidary Centocor confirmed plans today to build a new plant in Cork, employing 330 people.

Chemical company ADM of Ringaskiddy was convicted and fined €30,000 today after pleading guilty to two criminal offences of breaching health and safety legislation after a fatal accident at the plant two years ago.