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Obama trip to Ireland now likely with announcement of British trip in May

Posted on Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 04:47 PM
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News of a Barack Obama state visit to Britain in May has sparked new speculation that the president may drop in on the Emerald Isle either before or after his visit there.

Presidents Kennedy, Clinton and Reagan all took in Ireland as well as Britain on visits during their presidency.

The White House announced that Michelle Obama would accompany her husband.

Any announcement on an Irish leg of the trip will doubtless be held off until the St.Patrick's season when Obama hosts an annual Irish gathering at the White House

Vice President Biden recently told a Washington insider that he had told President Obama that he wanted to visit Ireland, but Obama told him 'I'll get there first."

Obama's Irish roots have been traced to Moneygall, County Offaly on the Tipperary border.

The American Ambassador Dan Rooney has consistently stated that he believed a trip to Ireland by the president was inevitable.

The former Pittsburgh Steelers owner has a close relationship with the president, after supporting him early on in the key state of Pennsylvania



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Taho1221 | Feb 19, 2011, 02:30 PM EST
Niall, I would like to hear your opinion. Ireland is bankrupt and now all but owned by Europe and IMF. This is the major issue for the election and for the people. Why does Enda Kenny and your brother, Fergus O'Dowd still harp on Gerry Adams' past and try to smear him and make it a campaign issue?

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LinLinisme | Feb 19, 2011, 11:57 AM EST
I don't believe the Queen wants him...he has no class. Again he can go to hell as long as he doesn't come back

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casualMBA | Feb 19, 2011, 04:38 AM EST
Maybe the tourists are not emigrating from Ireland

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borefield | Feb 18, 2011, 11:33 PM EST
Ireland has enough troubles. He will just be a hyprocite if he goes as he really has no interest in the Irish or their culture, to be fair, it's the Irish that keep pushing his Irish roots thing. Is his ego really that big that he feels the Queens visit might upstage him.

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FallsRNat | Feb 18, 2011, 05:22 PM EST
he hates the brits so youse should get along with him.

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bonjouryall | Feb 18, 2011, 04:39 PM EST
Another trip to Europe??? We can balance the budget just by cutting out his trips. Air Force One, its crew, dozens of secret service agents. I think he's up to five or six trips now. He'll cram in a dozen more if it looks like he'll lose the next election. Anyway, I hope the Irish ignore whatever he has to say (perhaps something astute like reunite with Britain?). His advice to bail out the banks hasn't worked out too well.

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MotherIrish | Feb 18, 2011, 04:29 PM EST
OH CRAP! and we were coming to visit Ireland in May... just what we need Obama and all his hangers on coming when we are there. We are coming to leave him and his drama behind. buffaloirishman -- you would not know great if it stared you in the face and said - Hey I am great. Obama is only great in his own mirror

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Towngate | Feb 18, 2011, 04:20 PM EST
NO TALK OF IRELAND: He is coming to Europe on an Official State Visit to Great Britain on the kind Invitation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. He will stay at Buckingham Palace and be Guest of Honour at a State Banquet. It is hoped there will be no mention of the breach of Protocol during his last visit when the Queen was touched! This time the notion that he can 'kill two birds with the one stone' and sneak over Shamrockside while he's here,could be considered inappropriate behaviour and as rudeness to his host,too. ~ ~ ~ Anyway, Michelle seems pleased to tag along as the Presidential Impedementa,judging by the photo! ~ or is it a cartoon?

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buffaloirishman | Feb 18, 2011, 04:19 PM EST
As an Irish American I am honored that our great President will visit the homeland of our ancestors (his and mine). President Obama is a great leader who takes on the important and difficult issues facing our country today. He is very much like the Irish political leaders who helped us and so many other people get a fair chance/an opportunity when the greedy rich tried to hold us down. President Obama and Ireland are a perfect match.

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Sparklet | Feb 18, 2011, 03:25 PM EST
He'll be more welcome in Ireland than that dangerous halfwit George Dubya.

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jdi2269 | Feb 18, 2011, 01:42 PM EST
MY CONDOLENCES IRELAND!

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peterson | Feb 18, 2011, 11:32 AM EST
He and his bunch of friends will spend millions in Ireland -- unfortunately, with money borrowed from China. He and his wife are big spenders of other people's mpney !!

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cillowen | Feb 18, 2011, 10:59 AM EST
he'll have a chance to meet his queen there in may. cozy connections.

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