Finance Minister Michael Noonan has today moved to reassure multinational companies that Ireland's corporate tax rate won't be changing.

LABOUR frontbench spokeswoman Jan O’Sullivan has attacked Limerick FF ministers for failing to support the 20 recommendations contained in the Mid-West Task Force interim report, which was published last July.

THE proposed €18 billion takeover of Guidant by Johnson & Johnson is not expected to impact on the creation of more than 1,300 new jobs planned independently by the companies in Cork and Clonmel.