Ireland and Munster rugby legend Paul O’Connell has rowed in behind a tech firm’s drive to improve the heart health of its global workforce.

An Irish technology company has struck a deal that positions it at the core of China’s rapidly developing life sciences industry.

An orthopaedic company based in Ringaskiddy, Co Cork, is to create 38 positions in research and development.

A scheme that rewards people for attracting foreign businesses to Ireland has helped create 83 jobs.

THE European Court of Justice has ruled that Ireland is in breach of an EU directive setting out how potentially dangerous developments are assessed for likely environmental effects before planning permission is granted.

ONE man has been charged, one is due before the courts today and another is being questioned after four separate weekend seizures of cannabis, valued at more than €1.6 million.

HUNDREDS more passengers have suffered disruption after another fault on the Cork to Swansea ferry forced the cancellation of its weekend sailings.

DOZENS of protesters were dressed as Father Christmas yesterday for a march against plans for an incinerator at Ringaskiddy, Co Cork.

Householders must realise that burning rubbish illegally in backyards can have deadly health effects, an Oireachtas Committee heard today.

BABIES and children are 25 times more exposed to the dangers of dioxins emitted by toxic waste incinerators than adults, a paediatrician warned yesterday.

THE proposed €18 billion takeover of Guidant by Johnson & Johnson is not expected to impact on the creation of more than 1,300 new jobs planned independently by the companies in Cork and Clonmel.

CONSTRUCTION on the €60 million Cork School of Music is unlikely to begin this year because of financial uncertainties.

PRESSURE was mounting on the Government last night to stop the State’s first toxic waste incinerator being built after two new studies found an increased incidence of stillbirths, deaths and heart disease in the vicinity of incinerators.

AN inspector with the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) said yesterday that he was unconcerned by a gas pipeline running through the site of a proposed hazardous waste incinerator plant at Ringaskiddy, Co Cork.

THE Government drive to encourage women to breastfeed could be jeopardised if the Indaver Ireland proposal for a hazardous waste incinerator goes ahead in Ringaskiddy, Co Cork.

Two investigations were launched today after a man died in an industrial accident outside of Cork.