Obama Says Ireland’s Resilience Will Drive Economic Recovery
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President Barack Obama appealed to Ireland’s resilient spirit to overcome the threat from a slow economy and Europe’s government-debt crisis as he celebrated the country’s ties to the U.S. as well as those of his own family.
“Yours is a history frequently marked by the greatest of trials, and the deepest of sorrows, but yours is also a history of proud and defiant endurance,” he said at an address in the heart of Dublin last night, before he left for the United Kingdom earlier than scheduled to stay ahead of a volcanic ash cloud spewing from Iceland.