Hard work and self-confidence ‘will aid recovery’

INITIATIVE, hard work, determination, self-confidence — these are ingredients for Ireland’s recovery.

And Irish people should not become “demoralised” or give in to “hopelessness”. That was the uplifting message of the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan Buddhist leader, on his visit here.

His message received rapturous applause from a 2,500-strong crowd in Dublin’s Citywest Hotel, as he awed them with his idiosyncratic mix of wisdom, wit and laughter.