A detained truck driver with a history of radical Islamic ties is refusing to speak to police investigators over his implication in an explosion and beheading in south-eastern France.

DAIRYGOLD has had to pay back a €750,000 grant to the Welsh Assembly government, stemming from last year’s closure of its Dairygold Food Products cheese company packing plant in Wales.

CRH has produced record sales and profits figures for the year ending December 31, 2005, due to strong underlying organic growth and good incremental contributions from acquisitions, the company says.

Kilsaran Concrete Products has announced that it is considering making an offer for fellow Irish building materials firm Readymix.