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Pharmaceutical firm Bioniche Pharma is to create 25 new jobs in research and development over the next three years in the Gaeltacht.

The company, which currently employs 160 people at its facility in Indreabhán, recently moved into a new €2.5 million manufacturing site that was developed by Údarás na Gaeltachta.