Follow through will be the test if seeds of growth to bear fruit

NEARLY 200 of the best international business brains converged on Dublin over the weekend to help inspire those charged with grasping an ailing Celtic Tiger by the scruff of the neck and forcing it back to its former winning ways.

When the forum was mooted by economist and author David McWilliams the Government, probably for a mixture of reasons, decided to run with his proposition.

Sceptics saw it as a limp effort by a government desperate for some positive press as it choked on a crisis for which it is largely responsible.