Abbott opens world’s largest diabetes sensor plant in Kilkenny
Plant will employ 800 people producing company’s Freestyle Libre glucose monitoring sensors as part of €440m investment in Irish network
Abbott
Abbott forecasts 2024 profit below market estimates
Multinational employs more than 5,000 across 10 locations in Ireland
Cavan estate objects to nearby Abbott Ireland expansion plan
Actions brought by Bellamont Castle owner John Morehart
Is AI a threat to jobs? ‘History shows that better manufacturing results in more manufacturing jobs and better jobs’
Artificial intelligence could transform the sector, and not everyone subscribes to gloomy forecasts
Dexcom secures new IDA Ireland chief an early win
Athenry’s 1,000-job bonanza comes against ongoing concern about the carrying capacity of the Irish economy
Abbott ordered to pay worker €35,000 for sacking him over cleaning product error
Adjudicating officer found no evidence that the complainant’s work was ‘anything other than exemplary’
Ciarán Hancock’s Christmas Business Quiz – the answers and winners
Winner receives midweek overnight stay at the Muckross Park Hotel & Spa in Co Kerry
Microsoft plans private power plant on €900m data centre site in response to energy concerns
Seen and heard: Microsoft’s latest data centre to contain power plant, Revenue to step up share scheme tax crackdown and Intel’s extended leave offer to workers
Abbott gets green light for major expansion in Kilkenny
US medtech group is spending €440m on growing in the Republic
Irish milk formula industry weighs Biden’s emergency supplies call
US president invokes wartime measures to secure supplies as parents fret over feeding their children
US turns to Cootehill for emergency supplies of infant formula
Abbott flying milk powder to US daily from Ireland after product recall and FDA inquiry
‘That’s How We Do It’: Jaden Smith, Mia Farrow, 50 Cent and more react to Will Smith slap
Oscars 2022: Reactions to the slapping of Chris Rock ranged from delight to concern
Malin eyes more investments and returning cash in 2022
Litigation-related costs came to €400,000 last year as founders sue for direct stake
Even butterflies are casualties in Texas battle over border controls
Conservation centre on Rio Grande forced to close after online attacks by conspiracy theorists
Engage XR expects big jump in revenue as corporate customers sign up
Waterford-based virtual reality company says it expects revenue of €2.4 million for 2021
Women’s indoor hockey coach ‘immensely proud’ of Ireland’s efforts in Spain
Abbott says there will be plenty of take from EuroHockey Indoor Championship II despite five defeats
Can antigen tests properly detect Omicron?
Could rapid antigen tests be missing some cases of the Omicron variant of Covid-19?
‘Ireland has a strong international reputation for life sciences’
Why Ireland is an attractive home for the world’s life science companies
European stocks reach six-week highs as Nestlé shines
Strong results from Swiss group boost food stocks, offsetting losses elsewhere
Do you track your steps, sleep and food? You could be signing away your privacy
Big tech encourages health monitoring from heart rate to glucose level, but is it too much?
Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin: ‘We shouldn’t leave it to industry to say what’s best for your child’
Just 37% of Irish mothers breastfeed, while baby formula sales are booming
Pat Leahy: Bitter and binary Dáil rows ignore bigger issues
Parties need to partner better, stop fighting and tackle tax, defence and healthcare
How Abbott Labs devised its formula for ‘single Malt’ taxation
Use of Malta as tax haven to replace ‘double Irish’ comes as State under OECD scrutiny
Government must act on tax loopholes exploited by multinationals, charity says
Call comes as investigation shows Abbott apparently using ‘Single Malt’-type structure
Abbott confirms new €37.8m R&D investment for Clonmel
Project to focus on stents as well as coronary and endovascular balloon technologies
Sustainability has become a must-do for companies big and small
Multinationals Abbott and Salesforce Ireland have been embedding plans to reduce or eliminate their carbon footprints, both home and abroad
Ireland remains an attractive investment destination for US companies
Economy expected to rebound strongly in the second half of 2021 as Covid restrictions are eased
Medtronic stops sale of heart device HVAD System over safety concerns
Higher rate of neurological adverse events with the HVAD
Making Caesarean section surgery safer, easier and faster
Start-up Nua Surgical’s SteriCision, a retractor device, tackles many major unmet needs
White House says Texas winter storm likely due to climate change
State’s governor initially blamed crisis on efforts to transition to green energy sources
Irish-based medtech and life sciences companies responded quickly to Covid challenge
From Covid-19 testing kits to treatments for the virus, the pandemic is a priority for Irish medtechs
Republicans confident they can withstand Democratic surge in Texas
Shifting demographics and growing anti-Trump factor have spurred Democrats’ hopes
Trump and Biden prepare to face off in first presidential debate
Millions of Americans are expected to tune into the live 90-minute debate
Covid-19 testing: ‘We should have been ready for this’
Can our system of test, trace and isolate rise to the challenge of rising case numbers?
European stocks end lower as Fed boost is offset by resource losses
Walmart soars on TikTok bid as Ryanair goes higher and CRH stumbles
Coronavirus: Global cases pass 24 million as India sees record spike
Abbott Laboratories 15-minute Covid-19 test granted emergency clearance in US
Abbott’s 15-minute Covid test gets emergency authorisation in US
Test to be priced at $5 and does not rely on laboratory equipment
Covid-19 vaccine makers lobby EU for legal protection
Vaccine development in covid-era has been accelerated
Medtronic profit falls 44% as Covid hits elective surgeries
Company, which has a plant in Galway, said sales of ventilators more than doubled
What sold for €200k in Rialto, Dublin 1, Tallaght and Tipperary
This budget bought a city flat, a two-bed Clondalkin cottage and a turnkey three-bed house
Coronavirus: Technopath offers employers not-for-profit antibody tests
Tipperary firm sees confidence in testing as crucial to getting staff back to work
Iseq treads water as other European markets rise on Chinese data
Wall Street falls back as reignition of US-China trade row threatens tech stocks
Dire warnings of need for tax rises and spending cuts
Seen & Heard: Airbnb hosts in firing line and Johnny Ronan on Bewley’s closure
How Ireland’s food industry is staying ahead of consumer trends
Process, product and marketing innovation remain vital to success of industry
Coronavirus - the science: The merits of app trackers and face masks
Edition 4: Countries wrestling with mask policy but there are slivers of good news
Shares edge higher as relative calm reigns over markets
In Dublin, the Iseq rose by just over 0.5%, in line with other European bourses
J&J and Abbott announce potential coronavirus vaccine and rapid test
US healthcare groups bring hope in race to fight Covid-19 pandemic
Life science sector gets the lion’s share of €96.2m IDA grants
Eight out of top 10 recipients were in life science sector, reflecting strong jobs growth
The Irish Times Business Person of the Month: Pat Beirne
Mergon secures multimillion investment from British private equity firm Elysian Capital
Google to pay A$481.5m in major win for Australian Tax Office
Search engine giant’s settlement brings to A$1.25bn the amount collected from ecommerce players
Innovation and R&D perfect examples of power of collaboration
As R&D increasingly moves out of house, Irish firms team up closely with partners
Brexit-focused Enterprise Ireland opens office in Lyon
The improvement in the French economy and growing awareness of France as an export market encouraged the setting up of the office
Kerry student wins SciFest 2019 with ocean ‘dead zone’ combatting filter
Timothy McGrath from Killorglin Community College was one of record 10,000 entrants
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