Lebron James and Warren Buffett were together again at the Allen and Company conference in Sun Valley last week — and the highlight of the event was a video showing Buffett beating James in a one-on-one basketball game.

Warren Buffett and Bill Gates have something in common besides being the two richest men in the world. They also want to give it all away sooner rather than later.

No-one has been able to figure out just what the world's richest people were talking about last week but here's my wish list for them. 1. Buy Ireland 2. Or do a lease-back 3. Or even rent it

A top-secret meeting of the world’s richest people to discuss the global financial crisis was held in New York on May 5, IrishCentral.com has learned exclusively. The mysterious, media-blackout meeting was called by Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire-Hathaway; Bill Gates, co founder of Microsoft; and David Rockefeller Jr., chairman of Rockefeller Financial Services.

There is much talk of Mrs Bono, Ali Hewson for president of Ireland when the job becomes available in 2010. I have a much better idea. Why not her husband?

Chuck Feeney was once one of the word's richest men. Now he’s broke. And he couldn’t be happier. He wants to make sure his check to the undertaker bounces. He says any man, no matter how rich, can wear only one pair of shoes at a time. Welcome to the world of Chuck Feeney, once one of the world’s richest men, who is determined to die one of the poorest.

Poor tickets sales due to the recession have forced Irish Ropes Promotions to cancel their St. Patrick’s Eve Erin Go Brawl II show at the

William J. Flynn, the former chairman of Mutual of America, was recently asked by the British government to accept an honorary Commander of the British Empire award for services to Northern Ireland. Flynn, the son of Irish Catholics from Down and Mayo, accepted, and thus became the fourth prominent Irish American leader to figure on the British honors list in recent times.

WHEN Warren Buffet, Bill Gates and Jack Welch appear on the front cover praising your book, you know you have a winner on your hands.

The book is called The Ten Commandments for Business Failure, and when the author of the book is Donald R. Keough, former president of the Coca-Cola Company and now chairman of investment bank Allen and Company, we should not be surprised.

Donald R. Keough, 82, is former president of the Coca-Cola Company and now chairman of Allen and Company the New York investment bank. He is the best selling author of "The Ten Commandments of Business Failure.

60 Minutes On Feeney

CBS newsmagazine 60 Minutes will feature a major segment on reclusive billionaire Chuck Feeney, who is the subject of a major new biography, The Billionaire Who Wasn't, which will be released next week. The book was written by former Irish Times journalist Conor O'Clery, as you'll read in our arts pages this week.

Feeney, of course, is famous for giving away his fortune, including well over a billion dollars to worthy causes in Ireland.