A man suffered life-threatening injuries after he was trapped when a JCB teleporter toppled attempting to lift a heavy shuttering panel on to a building site. He has been awarded €215,000 in the High Court.

A major drive is under way to position Cork as the prime location outside Dublin for the location of multimillion-euro ‘big data’ storage centres.

Ireland’s reputation as a favoured location for multinationals’ sprawling data centres will be further cemented by the construction of Google’s new €150m data centre in west Dublin.

It uses Ireland’s climate to cool its computers, has no air conditioning and is entirely carbon neutral. It could only be Google’s latest building in Dublin.

INTERNET giant Google is to open a new data centre in Dublin to run its search engine, Gmail and Google Maps services.