Work set to start on €3m research centre in Clonmel

Work is to start on a €3m research and development centre in Clonmel early next year.

Contracts have been signed for the project — a collaboration between South Tipperary County Council and Limerick Institute of Technology — which is aimed at boosting new businesses as well as research and development programmes.

It is hoped the 1,400 square-metre facility, to be located just west of Clonmel in the Ballingarrane development campus, will open in the middle of 2014. The development will include research laboratories, conference and meeting rooms, and training rooms.