Becton, Dickinson and Company, known as BD, has been operating from Drogheda, Co Louth, since 1964, a period when TK Whitaker and Sean Lemass set about seducing foreign multinationals to locate in Ireland. Over the decades that followed, the US multinational developed an imprint in other locations in Ireland. It established a base in Dún Laoghaire in 1969, and a manufacturing plant in Enniscorthy, Co Wexford in 1996 after it acquired medical technology company Clearstream. It established a global research and development hub in Limerick in 2007.  However, Drogheda remained core to its Irish business, manufacturing products for oncology, interventional…

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