€2,000 to talk economics with ministers

TAOISEACH Brian Cowen and senior government ministers are making themselves available to discuss the economy with anyone willing to pay €2,000.

Cocktails have been offered to business people who want to rub shoulders with the country’s leaders at an event in the Conrad Hotel on October 30 organised by the Economist magazine.

The “Business Roundtable with the Government of Ireland” will be addressed by Mr Cowen, Finance Minister Brian Lenihan, Tánaiste Mary Coughlan and Communications Minister Eamon Ryan.