I spent much of Monday afternoon staring up, the way you do when you enter a stadium or a cathedral. The eyes go skyward, the chin follows naturally. For some reason, there’s an urge to say “wow” out loud, like an idiot, as the eyes try to take in the immensity of what they are trying to see. Monday marked the launch of pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly’s Limerick plant. As its site lead Dave Riordan and Eli Lilly CEO Dave Ricks said at the opening, the plant is going to be huge. Right now you can just see the skeleton…

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