ONE of the world’s largest medical device companies has delivered a timely tonic to the mid-west and the wider economy by announcing an additional 200 highly skilled jobs at its Limerick facility.

Some 200 high quality jobs are to be created over the next five years at a medical technology company in Limerick, it was announced today.

WORKERS reacted angrily last night to news that 44 jobs were to be axed at Shannon after its lucrative Heathrow route was scrapped.