The Ford Motor Company wouldn’t be where it is today without the hard work of Cork employees, the firm’s executive chairman told its pensioners in City Hall.

The car manufacturing industry is on “the cusp of the greatest change” it has ever seen as artificial intelligence and driverless cars become a new reality.

Ford have announced a five-year scholarship with UCC to commemorate 100 years in Ireland.

In just a few months it will be exactly 100 years since Henry Ford registered his company, Henry Ford & Sons in Ireland.