Bertie sees billions in doing business in India

CLOSE to 100 Irish people on a mission slipped into Bangalore over the weekend unnoticed; easy to do in India with a population of close to one billion.

They are here to make money. This is a big stakes game and the Irish group have come with a few aces up their sleeves.

Their trump card is Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and he has brought three ministers - Micheál Martin, John O’Donoghue and Mary Hanafin - as outriders to ensure the first all-Ireland trade mission to leave these shores is a success.