Tyrrelstown, a Dublin residential town bordering Meath which began development in the early 2000s currently with a population of approximately 6000 began in the early years surrounded by nothing but fields but now the surrounding area has been industrialised, with the closest factory is almost 600 meters from the closest residential area of Tyrrelstown. This project explores why all the major international pharmaceutical companies chose to set up in this region bordering Meath and Dublin.

 

Dublin 15 in the early 2000s was pretty much just empty fields, in particular the area sitting on the border with Meath. Since 2000, many pharmaceutical companies have set up operations and production plants in the area with some companies already setting up there prior to the sudden 'boom' of these installations - the oldest in the area being Astellas (originally as Yamanouchi, Japan based) in 1986 as a manufacturing plant for Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients for medicinal products, with production operations commencing in July of 1988. 

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Helsinn (Swiss based) in 1997 completed their facility in the area.

Bristol-Myers Squibb’s (US based) was completed in 2002, Clarochem (Irish based, formerly Helsinn Chemicals Ireland Ltd) in 2009 after its acquisition of its facilty in the area. West Pharmaceuticals established its Dublin facility in the area in 2005. Mallinckrodt built its facility in 1993 but expanded its new facility in 2008.