Ireland ‘will pay price for mistakes’

Ireland will pay the full price for the mistakes made in its name, the Taoiseach has told US businessmen.

“We have as a nation paid a heavy price for the mistakes that were made in our name. But it is a price that has to be paid and pay it we will,” he told a breakfast gathering of businessmen and politicians, including Mayor of Chicago Rahm Emanuel and Illinois Governor Pat Quinn.

It was Mr Kenny’s first full day of his six-day visit to the US, visiting Chicago, the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, New York, then Washington for the now traditional handing over of the shamrock to President Obama.