Obama: 'Ireland, your best days are still ahead'

US president Barack Obama told Ireland he was home tonight in an electrifying open-air address topped off with his world-famous motto.

Obama: 'Ireland, your best days are still ahead'
Mon, 23 May, 2011 - 22:16

US president Barack Obama told Ireland he was home tonight in an electrifying open-air address topped off with his world-famous motto.

The College Green speech in Dublin in front of 25,000 people was rounded off with his campaign rallying cry translated into Irish – “Is feidir linn... yes, we can”.

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