- Facebook is expanding its workforce in Ireland, 100 new jobs available Facebook is expanding its workforce at its international headquarters in Ireland, adding 100 new positions and growing the company's total head count to 500 at its base in Ireland's capital, Dublin.
- MSD officially opens two new €28.6 million health-care facilities in Cork Pharmaceutical company MSD has officially opened two new facilities at their existing Brinny site near Innishannon, Cork. The two new facilities, the Brinny Bioassay Centre of Expertise and the Brinny Pneumococcal Vaccine Conjugation Facility, represent a financial investment of €28.6 million and the provision of 70 jobs.