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The Eli Lilly manufacturing plant in Limerick. Lilly has been bulking up its Irish production capacity in Kinsale and Limerick.
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Artisan craft stores jostle with fish restaurants around the harbor of Kinsale on the southwest coast of Ireland. On the town’s edge, earth movers and concrete mixers are at work on a construction site for new housing.
Long a tourist destination, Kinsale is booming. A chief reason for the town’s vibrancy lies a ten-minute drive away along the winding roads of County Cork. It’s here among rolling hills and lush farmland that Eli Lilly & Co. produces an active ingredient for its blockbuster Mounjaro and Zepbound drugs.