Ahern leads massive trade mission to China

Ireland’s largest foreign trade mission, featuring the Taoiseach, four Cabinet ministers and dozens of business delegates, jets out to China today for a week of building contacts and cutting deals.

Bertie Ahern will be joined by enterprise and trade minister Micheal Martin, education and science minister Mary Hanafin, communications minister Noel Dempsey and agriculture and food minister Mary Coughlan for the tour of Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong.