Graduates told to look beyond US shores

Taoiseach Enda Kenny urged graduates to “go beyond what is reliable and look beyond America” in an address to the Boston College class of 2013.

Mr Kenny received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree, which he later said he accepted “gratefully on behalf of the people of Ireland — past generations and present generations”.

Delivering the commencement address to 4,400 students, their families and friends at the college’s graduation ceremony, Mr Kenny urged them to: “Be successful, be happy and, above all, be yourselves.”