President Obama asked to attend sheep shearing contest

He'll want to win it too as he is shearing Eire. The country is going to be in lockdown mode from May 16th onward with the Queens visit through his visit which means you cant get in or out of the place. By the time this antichrist has finished shearing Eire it'll be up in flames with a nuclear bomb thrown into the works (brushfires and Sellafield)and just like the false prophet Dalai Lama he'll tell you all "Things will get better" and just like the Dalai Lama he'll say as his flight departs out of the place "It was so EASY". It's understood both of them are very impressed with two abominations of desolation in Eire -the Michael Collins statue & Garden of Remembrance. The statue looks like something out of the Pit and the garden showpiece looks like a dragon.

goldenblade …It's also a statement on how powerful the negative effects of Fox News has been on a group of Americans who "choose" only to believe their preconceived biases about our first multi cultural president. Fox makes millions feeding their appetites for smear. Instead of respecting him and giving him credit for achieving the American dream against insurmountable odds (like the Irish did years ago) they’d rather demean him. I wonder what it is like for all the children who saw themselves in him to hear this nonstop degradation of one they look up to. Your point on travel is so true; it’s the greatest education.

McNamara - I agree with you - the level of intelligence (or lack of, rather) of some of the commentators below is astonishing. Half these people have never been to Ireland and yet claim it for themselves, the "old country" that they don't want to change, with leprechauns a-leaping etc etc.....and the chant "my great great granddaddy came from County Cork.".... Makes a case for travelling and not becoming institutionalised like some of these.

Be careful what you wish for. Obama may be a ringer. He has sheared the American people and won't settle till we have no future.

He is doing his best to 'fleece' We the SHEEPle; maybe some good shearmaster could skin, sorry, I meant shear, him!

McNamara31 Welcome! I don't speak for "IC" of course, but I am glad you decided to join in the fun here with your probing and incisive question! Btw keep away from the Irish rams - unless you are short of some knitting wool!

Does IC run articles like this one for the sole pupose of feeding the commentary below?

Seamusmoore @ 11.23 Very funny. If Barry O'Baa-ma were to try that - I think the sheep would rather jump!

lol and for best sheeps arse in show, the winner is, hey barak get off that sheep!!

Some really pathetic comments here.

They should shear him -- CARELESSLY !!

Regardless of all the snide insinuations I'm elated that he may be going to my local home town,hope he can get through all the traffic on main Street,

WEBSTER NEW DEFINITION.....OBAMANIA:The need to write articles of little importance.

Obama has lots of shearing practice;he has been shearing the American public for over 2 yrs now. He has a practiced hand. Glad my visit to Ireland will be ending the day before he comes. Don't want the bile to back up to my throat.

They can neuter him after shearing the wool.