GLOBAL healthcare company Covidien has been named the EU’s top research and development & investor in the healthcare industry.

GARDAÍ from the national bureau of criminal investigation, the organised crime unit and local detectives in Drogheda, are working to try and identify the gang responsible for a tiger kidnapping which saw an An Post clerk forced to hand over up to €600,000 in cash.

AGREED procedures may not have been followed in the latest tiger kidnapping, where a gang escaped with an estimated €550,000 from a post office in Co Louth.

Gardaí have recovered a burned out car they believe may have been used during the abduction of a post office worker, his partner and their child in Drogheda, Co. Louth overnight.

Gardaí in Co Louth are appealing for witnesses to the abduction of an An Post official, his partner and their child from a house in Drogheda.

The High Court has made an order winding up a company that operate a Dublin city centre hair salon due to its failure to pay a tax bill of more than €200,000.

THE week-old strike at Dublin Bus, which had been affecting 60,000 commuters, is over following the acceptance by workers yesterday of a Labour Court peace formula.

Unions at Dublin Bus tonight accepted proposals to bring an end to a dispute with the company which has caused travel chaos to thousands of commuters.

Workers at Dublin Bus will today consider a Labour Court proposal to resolve a dispute with management which has caused travel chaos to thousands of commuters.

Up to 60,000 commuters are hoping for a breakthrough today in the bus dispute which has left them stranded since Monday.

DUBLIN Bus passengers on 36 city routes will have little or no service for a second day today as the company and unions refuse to back down in their dispute over the Harristown depot.