Cowen looks to diaspora for ideas on economy

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.

Ahead of a global forum in the Phoenix Park next month, Brian Cowen has asked bosses of some of the world’s biggest companies to come home for what is being dubbed the mother of all think-ins.

The brainchild of economist and presenter David McWilliams, the conference is being funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs.