Brian Cowan is on a trade mission (impossable) to Japan to celebrate 50 years of diplomatic exchange between our two great States.

But I love this little extract from FINFACTS

A trade mission led by a minister has to spin the impression that the presence of a political leader can produce business in the immediate short-term like manna from heaven.
Enterprise Ireland is encouraged to trawl for past business orders to provide the spin on new orders awaiting the trade mission, as most of the media fall for the spoof.

Johnny Keogh wrote:

Brian Cowan is on a trade mission (impossable) to Japan to celebrate 50 years of diplomatic exchange between our two great States.

But I love this little extract from FINFACTS

A trade mission led by a minister has to spin the impression that the presence of a political leader can produce business in the immediate short-term like manna from heaven.
Enterprise Ireland is encouraged to trawl for past business orders to provide the spin on new orders awaiting the trade mission, as most of the media fall for the spoof.

And least we get the false impression that there is hope, let finfacts speak forth with their spin of Government spin, a better class of spin altogether.
Finfacts "we can blow out candles quicker than you can light them"

i bet cowen couldn't get out of the country quick enough!!!