Council demands Amgen answers

FURIOUS Cork county councillors have demanded that Minister for Enterprise Micheál Martin and his junior Michael Ahern come to County Hall and explain what went wrong with the €1 billion Amgen project and, equally importantly, when exactly they knew it was axed.

There were angry scenes at the council’s headquarters as opposition councillors turned on their Fianna Fáil colleagues, with several claiming that the party had used Amgen as an election stunt.

Standing orders were suspended for the debate and the first salvos were launched by Cllr John Mulvihill (Lab).