FOREIGN Affairs Minister Micheál Martin has announced that 180 international thinkers and business experts will attend the Global Irish Economic Forum in Dublin later this month.

Details of an economic summit for Ireland, which is modelled on the World Economic Forum at Davos in Switzerland, are being released later today.

THE Taoiseach has written to some of the world’s top entrepreneurs and business leaders with Irish roots in an appeal to inject capital and initiative into the ailing economy.