Cork's multinational profits in the crosshairs, drawing Trump’s attention
The Eli Lilly manufacturing plant in Kinsale: The company has a long-established relationship with University College Cork. Picture: Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Bloomberg
Long a tourist destination, Kinsale is booming as its artisan craft stores jostle with fish restaurants around the harbour.
On the town’s edge, earth movers and concrete mixers are at work on a construction site for new housing. A chief reason for the town’s vibrancy lies a 10-minute drive away. It’s here among the rolling hills and lush farmland that Eli Lilly produces an active ingredient for its blockbuster Mounjaro and Zepbound drugs.
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