‘Your call’ competition down to five finalists

THE competition to find a new idea which will help boost the nation’s economy has been whittled down to five finalists, it emerged yesterday.

The Your Country, Your Call challenge, the brainchild of Dr Martin McAleese, has reduced an initial 9,000 submissions to the final five shortlist, with the winner to be announced later this month.

The five finalists include turning Ireland into a global media hub, the setting up of an intellectual property based financial securities market here, and installing Solar panels on existing windfarm sites to increase the generation of renewable energy.