Westport is a place famed for its contradictions. Both deeply pretty – a three-time Tidy Town and 12-time Tidiest Large Town winner – and undeniably alluring for stag parties, the Mayo town arguably best known for Catholic pilgrimages also happens to be the location where the world’s supply of Botox is made. Indeed, in the shadow of the route taken by Saint Patrick to fast for 40 days and 40 nights to free himself from toxins, exists a factory where a particularly alluring type of toxin is made.  Since 1994, the world’s Botox – the brand name for onabotulinumtoxinA, a class of medications…

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