Robert Baffi, of BioMarin, tells Pádraig Hoare that the Californian rare-disease drugs firm will invest €37m in its large site at Shanbally, in Cork, with employee numbers to hit 400 by 2020

Almost 700 people attended a biotech company career day yesterday in the hope of getting a job with the firm which hopes to create 100 jobs by 2015.

A global biotech giant is to create more than 100 jobs at its manufacturing facility in Cork.