Cork could be in line for a significant jobs boost with the announcement that pharmaceutical multinational Eli Lilly is to spend €10m on new Cork offices, in a building capable of hosting hundreds of new shared financial services jobs.

PHARMACEUTICAL group Eli Lilly is to recruit 90 finance and customer service professionals to work in its European Shared Services Centre in Cork city.

A US global financial security firm is to create 117 jobs in the Shannon Free Zone over the next three months.

One hundred new jobs have been confirmed for Cork over the next 12 months by Eli Lilly.