The Taoiseach says Ireland is fighting back, referring to job creation and 2.9 per cent yield on 10 year bonds.

He was speaking to the St. Patrick’s Day breakfast in Boston – an event attended by around 1000 Irish Americans including mayor Marty Walsh and hosted by Linda Dorcena Forry.

He reiterated the priority of getting better conditions for undocumented Irish in the US, saying: “On capitol hill the other day, the president, the vice president, the speaker Boehner and everybody else to talk about a problem that’s an issue for us in Ireland and that is the undocumented Irish and what we can do in terms of immigration and dealing with that.”