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.

A man in his 80s has died after he drove the wrong way down a motorway before colliding head on with another car on the outskirts of Cork.

THIEVES, with “nerves of steel”, stole around 20 truckloads of steel girders worth €200,000 from a construction firm’s yard on the outskirts of Cork city.

THIRTEEN cars and a bus carrying schoolchildren were involved in three separate accidents on main roads near Cork city yesterday, which resulted in significant tailbacks.

A TOWN that economic success overlooked is determined to get back on track with a blueprint for the future.

GARDAÍ are trying to establish why a Polish man in his 20s apparently ‘jumped out’ in front of a car driven by a young woman.

CONTRACTS for major water schemes worth €10 million were signed yesterday to service future housing and the proposed €1 billion Amgen plant in East Cork.

THE largest company to locate in Cork in modern times has cleared its first planning hurdle on the way to constructing a massive biotechnology plant.