Jobs’ challenge - May the best ideas win

PRESIDENT Mary McAleese yesterday launched Your Country Your Call — a process to find and reward two proposals that will generate jobs and secure prosperity.

The competition is to encourage us to “pool our talents, combine our thinking power… to move mountains better by mobilising our individual and collective can-do spirit”.

Two winners will each receive €100,000, as well as a development fund of up to €500,000 each.

This is a practical, hands-on response to our difficulties and will harness the talents and energy we all know exist right across this country.

It is a project that deserves support and commitment. It may be one of the many stepping stones to recovery we so badly need.