{"id":604349,"date":"2026-08-25T17:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T17:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/604349\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T17:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T17:42:08","slug":"boston-scientific-sends-cork-staff-home-amid-global-network-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/604349\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Scientific sends Cork staff home amid global network outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">More than 7,000 staff across Boston Scientific\u2019s three Irish plants have been informed of a global outage affecting its operations worldwide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Irish employees were told of the issue shortly before lunchtime in an email to all staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cWe are currently experiencing a global outage affecting network communications across our Ireland sites and other locations worldwide,\u201d the communication said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cOur local and global IT teams are actively working together to understand the issue and restore services as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cWe will share a further update as soon as more information becomes available.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It is understood that all staff on the day shift at the multinational\u2019s Cork plant on Model Farm Road were sent home at 2pm with full pay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Staff on the night shift at the Cork plant are currently waiting to be told whether they should report for duty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu caption\">More than 7,000 staff employed across Ireland\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u00a0Boston Scientific, a US medical technology multinational, was founded in 1979 in Massachusetts and employs an estimated 59,000 people worldwide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It employs more than 7,000 people across its plants in Galway, Clonmel and Cork, with an estimated 1,200 employees at its Model Farm Road plant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Boston Scientific was asked for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 7,000 staff across Boston Scientific\u2019s three Irish plants have been informed of a global outage affecting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,79,61,60],"class_list":["post-604349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-cork-news","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}