A new charity has vowed that nobody in Ireland will ever have to go hungry again.

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.

Energy Cork has become the country’s largest energy cluster just 12 months after it was founded, with more than 50 companies now participating.

MANY Irish businesses are adopting new interactive digital technologies which are saving them money, enhancing their business offering and opening access to new markets.

A provisional liquidator has been appointed to haulage company Target Express, ending prospect of saving 390 jobs at the firm.

Pre-tax profits at logistics firm Schenker (Ireland) Ltd increased by 3% in 2010 to €1.3m, new figures show.

SOME €19 billion of Irish pharmaceutical exports may be impacted by the expiration of patents on a number of blockbuster medicines produced here.

YOUNG farmers are to be trained on how to become future leaders in the €3 billion Irish dairy industry.

FARMERS have never been as positive or optimistic about their future in the industry, delegates at the opening of Macra na Feirme’s annual conference were told at Little Island, Co Cork, last night.

A BITTER dispute between some directors and shareholders of the giant Kentech group, which employs 2,800 people in Ireland and worldwide in providing engineering and other services, has come before the Commercial Court.

CORK CHAMBER and the Cork Area Strategic Plan partners will host a half-day workshop for suppliers, customers, researchers and businesses involved in the energy-related sector.

The Minister for Enterprise Batt O’Keeffe TD has announced 31 new jobs under an expansion plan by a firm that designs aluminium window and door systems.

A NETWORKING event, the largest of its kind in Ireland, is expected to generate contracts worth €10 million.

THEY botched the biggest drugs shipment in Irish history and now the gang behind it have had to suffer the further ignominy of seeing their boats and jeeps sold off.

A DISTRICT judge has warned motorists who might be tempted to drive off without paying for petrol that he regards it as a mean and miserable offence and he will jail them for it.

ONE of two creches hit by a TB outbreak earlier this year has received a prestigious award for maintaining consistently high standards.

DOCTORS tackling a TB outbreak in Cork will begin screening at a city creche again this morning where an adult case of the disease was confirmed last week.

Engineering supply firm The Reliance Bearing And Gear, has relocated its headquarters to Little Island, Co Cork.

IRISH Industrial Explosives’ dominance of the €40 million-plus explosives market is to come under threat from a rival consortium who want to built a €10m production facility in Munster.

A GLOBAL slowdown, competition from the Far East and a weakened US dollar were blamed yesterday for the closure of a Japanese chemical company with the loss of nearly 100 jobs.

A teenager was arrested today and charged with arson causing €6m worth of damage at a factory in Cork city.