One of the world’s leading biotechnology companies has said it has no intention of resuscitating a €820m plan to create a 1,100-job factory in Co Cork.

The Naval Service will hold a special decommissioning service on the LÉ Emer next Friday and the vessel is to be sold off through public auction on Oct 23.

THE words shipbuilding and Dublin are not often seen together – Harland and Wolfe in Belfast and the Verolme dockyard in Cork fit much better.

DEAR MINISTER, I know this is the busiest and most difficult time of year for you. Every Minister for Finance faces an enormous range of choices in the run-up to the budget, and this year will be no exception.

HAWKEYE Films is researching a TV documentary concentrating on 1984 in Cork city, looking at the effects of the closure of Verolme Dockyard, Ford (and Dunlop in 1983) on the city’s families, community and spirit.

WITH the waves lapping up at the back garden boundaries on high tide, and an indoor swimming pool alongside, Tideways has literally been floated on the market pitched at the executive family home sector.