FRENCH insurance giant AXA could create as many as 200 jobs at a new international product headquarters in Dublin for one of its key subsidiaries.

AXA Global Distributors, a subsidiary of AXA Insurance, is to create 200 jobs over the next three years in a new global life product distribution and servicing facility, it was announced today.

A judge today accused the Health Service Executive of obstructing a court case by withholding evidence from gardaí and a 15-year-old defendant charged with assaulting a care worker in the Ballydowd Special Care Unit.