Hong Kong property tycoon pitches new city idea to Ireland
theguardian.com
theguardian.com
The Irish government's reply is going to be: "Very interesting, we'll call you back". In fact, from the article it seems that the actual reply has been that but without "very interesting".
This is only getting airtime because any piece of news with "HK" in it is hot property (pun intended) at the moment.