Bill Clinton says Ireland ‘doing an unbelievable job’

Former president says Irish can ‘make good things happen

PATRICK COOPER,

IrishCentral.com Staff Writer

Published Monday, October 10, 2011, 8:20 AM

Updated Wednesday, October 12, 2011, 3:51 PM

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Former US president Bill Clinton

Photo by Ralph Alswang / Clinton Foundation

You think you have a lot of tourists, but you could get a lot more . . . Dublin before the crash was the 16th most expensive city in the world, it’s now 43rd. That may be a bummer for a lot of you but it’s a marketing tool that you ought to be able to use . . . You already paid the misery, you might as well get some of the advantage of it.

Don’t spend all your time trying to keep bad things from happening. Spend lots of time trying to make good things happen.

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gobdawpaddy | Oct 11, 2011, 06:55 AM EDT

He didn' address republican cage conditions up north because he was visiting the republic to consider the economic situation there. Actually I couldn't give a damn what their conditions are.

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abhainn | Oct 10, 2011, 07:13 PM EDT

For Christ's sake, what is this crap? Poor Ireland, that we have sunk so low that this phoney, patronising stuff is shovelled at us: "People like us, we're sort of professional Irish-Americans. We're never happier in America than when we go to some Irish event and we tell each other what good Irish people we are and how much we love it. It's like when we don't do it, we have DTs or something..."

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JBRAFTREE | Oct 10, 2011, 06:57 PM EDT

I hope to hell Ireland's financial people are not "Cooking the books", and I hope also that Bill Clinton isn't a closet anything...

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jamieLM | Oct 10, 2011, 06:27 PM EDT

A pep talk from Bill. Maybe he's a closet cheerleader..."Give me a "V" - Go Ireland, Go." LOL Probably have to be an American to get this post.

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joan1954 | Oct 10, 2011, 11:42 AM EDT

If Billy boy is planning a meeting here in the US, hold it outside of east coast so give those small corporations and entrepreneurial types a chance to attend. The large corporations are not the ones creating the jobs in the US it is the small firms that are. Mr. Clinton would be well advised to hold the meeting in St. Louis which is equidistant from all parts of the US. NY and Boston from the south are easy to get to or perhaps that is by design? If so Ireland is selling itself short.

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Murph46 | Oct 10, 2011, 11:14 AM EDT

Yeah,believe everything the convicted liar says!

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mcdolan | Oct 10, 2011, 10:14 AM EDT

Inspiring!

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sirpeter | Oct 10, 2011, 09:27 AM EDT

Ah!! Billy's the man.All the negative talk gets nobody anywhere.The people of Ireland needed a reality check anyway.Selling eachother houses like lunatics and fueling house prices until they were at manic prices.With their three foreign holidays a year.Changing their cars every two years.And partying and spending like it was their last day on earth.The only problem was the FF government was doing it too.We got ripped off by the banks because nobody was sober.

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LoyalCitizen | Oct 10, 2011, 08:43 AM EDT

"Everybody in the world thinks you’ve done an unbelievable job of managing a miserable situation" Bill Clinton high on his own self importance.........I for one would shoot every Politician, Judge, Solicitor, Bankers, Civil Servants in the history of the Irish State for falsifying the rule books of Ireland, financing pretentious American Corporations and stealing from Social Welfare Recipients to hide their mistakes.......What would dopey Bill say about me then?

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gobdawpaddy | Oct 10, 2011, 08:30 AM EDT

It was a very upbeat speech with some tangible advice for Irish leaders. President Clinton is echoing the sentiment that is appearing on the editorial pages of most of the global financial press. Let's hope they are all correct in their assessment.

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