Ministers should learn from the real achievers

THE forthcoming inaugural Global Irish Economic Forum, which is the brainchild of the visionary economist David McWilliams, is to be welcomed.

This forum is intended to bring together many of the most successful people of Irish ancestry from around the globe, with the ultimate aim of rebuilding our shattered and perilously mismanaged economy.

I was disturbed , however, when Foreign Minister Micheál Martin, appeared to preempt the outcome of this potentially fruitful forum. He appeared to do this, in my view, by claiming that the ideas, outcomes and thinking resulting from it would likely consist of “green technology” and “climate change”.