Obama Says Ireland’s Resilience Will Drive Economic Recovery

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U.S. President Barack Obama, right, addresses a crowd gathered on College Green at Trinity College with Enda Kenny, Ireland's prime minister, behind him in Dublin, Ireland, on Monday, May 23, 2011. Obama, on the first stop of a four-country European trip, pledged the U.S. will "do everything that we can to be helpful" to aid Ireland's economic recovery.