Cash-strapped third-level students are being offered hot meals for €3 in a bid to put healthy and affordable eating at the top of their menu.

Special Olympics Ireland last night saluted a multinational firm and its workers in Cork and Limerick for their support over the past 10 years and for the upcoming national games to be held in Limerick.

The 100 jobs announced yesterday by contact lens maker Vistakon at its plant in Limerick will go to college graduates at the high end of the pay scale, the company said.

One hundred new jobs are being created in Limerick, with a €100m expansion of manufacturing operations at Vistakon.

ATTENDEES flooded to FÁS Jobs Ireland Munster yesterday morning, hours before the curtain was formally raised at the Nemo Rangers GAA complex in Douglas, Cork.

Two US firms are to create 75 jobs in Limerick, it was announced today.

Two American firms are set to create up to 75 new jobs in Limerick over the coming years.

GIANT healthcare corporation Johnson & Johnson’s subsidiary Vistakon will today announce a €100 million expansion at its Limerick plant.

EMPLOYERS from across the mid-west will gather for a bigr business meeting in Shannon tomorrow amid concerns that the loss of Aer Lingus’s Heathrow link will cripple the regional economy.

JOHNSON & Johnson has announced plans to eliminate 3-4% of its global workforce of about 120,500 people as part of an effort to improve its cost structure.

THE world’s largest health care product manufacturer, The Johnson & Johnson (J&J) group, yesterday took its first steps towards sponsoring a number of customised courses in partnership with Cork Institute of Technology (CIT).

LIMERICK received a major jobs boost yesterday with the decision of a multinational to expand its Plassey Technological Park operation, increasing its workforce by 124.

BIG companies in the Mid-West have agreed to give a helping hand to smaller ones in their area by sharing their expertise on how best to tackle waste management.

Two separate investigations are underway into the cause of an explosion at a Limerick factory which killed a married man in his 40's.

A man has died in a suspected gas explosion at a factory in Limerick city this morning.

THE boundaries of Limerick will have be extended to allow the mid-west capital develop into a prosperous gateway city.