Alliance Medical buy Limerick firm

A LIMERICK-based medical company has been bought for an undisclosed sum by Alliance Medical, one of the largest providers of diagnostic scanning in Europe.

MRI service provider Sequence Medical Group was established in 2000 by businessman Chris Jones. It employs 46 staff and has a registered business address in Limerick.

It has nine contracts in hospitals in Cork, Limerick, Tralee, Renmore, Drogheda, Tullamore, Navan, Clane and one in Belfast. The deal with Alliance Medical was announced yesterday.