Billionaire businessman Denis O’Brien should not be invited to future government-sponsored economic fora, Europe Minister Lucinda Creighton has said.

IRELAND’s low rate of corporation tax has been vital to the country’s economic development “before the EU even came into being,” former taoiseach , John Bruton told a gathering of international business leaders in New York last night.

Leaders of the US and Irish business communities participating in Ireland Day will visit the New York Stock Exchange today.