ENDA KENNY WILL be making his annual stateside pilgrimage for St Patrick’s Day next month.
It won’t be all handing-shamrock-to-Obama, though, with the Taoiseach set to give a talk at SXSW Interactive, part of the popular Texan music and conference festival.
Here is the festival as we’re used to seeing it:
Kenny will speak to an audience on Sunday, 15 March in the Austin Convention Centre.
SXSW organisers said Kenny will discuss the “how the Irish economy has been growing repidly” and the reputation as “a location for launching startups and a leading tech and innovation hub”.
An Irish Consulate office opened in Austin in October 2014.
The green and the good
Let’s take a moment to reminisce on Kenny’s last St Patrick’s Day trip to the US.
He had the craic with President Obama:
But there were some serious moments too:
And, of course, there was time to watch some Irish dancing:
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