Kenny: Wealth is deep inside us

THE Taoiseach appealed to the 40 million Irish-Americans to “follow their president home” in a rousing introduction to Barack Obama’s speech in Dublin’s College Green.

In front of tends of thousands of people, Enda Kenny said this country has a unique wealth that “cannot be accumulated in banks or measured by the markets or traded on the stock exchange”.

This wealth is “deep inside our people, in the heart-stopping beauty of our country and the transforming beauty of the Irish heart, imagination and soul.”