Obama woos crowd with cúpla focal

BARACK OBAMA has proclaimed himself Irish and told the country it can and will recover from the current crisis, declaring: “Is féidir linn.”

In a stirring 24-minute speech delivered to tens of thousands of people on Dublin’s College Green, the US president said to huge applause: “Your best days are still ahead.

“Our greatest triumphs, in America and Ireland alike, are still to come. And Ireland, if anyone ever says otherwise, if anybody ever tells you that your problems are too big, that your challenges are too great, and we can’t do something, that we shouldn’t even try, think about all that we’ve done together.