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Vice President Joe Biden slams Republicans in Congress for not believing in global warming (IrishCentral)

Tue, 14 May 2013 05:10:10 PDT

By: IrishCentral Staff Writers

Climate change is as important an issue for the nation as reforming gun laws, so why doesn't the Obama administration push for equal reform in this area?

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden set to visit Ireland in August report claims (IrishCentral)

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 04:12:47 PDT

By: PATRICK COUNIHAN

US vice-president Joe Biden will tee it up with Irish PM Enda Kenny in his native Mayo this August – with a stop-off in Dublin along the way.

The Irish Independent reports that keen golfer Biden has accepted Fine Gael leader Kenny’s offer to visit Ireland this summer.

Vice President Joe Biden will visit Ireland later this year, he reveals (IrishCentral)

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 03:59:12 PDT

By: IrishCentral Staff Writers

Vice President Joe Biden will visit Ireland this year, he told Irish leader Enda Kenny at a St.Patrick’s week breakfast yesterday at the vice presidential residence.

Vice President Joe Biden to speak at Irish America Hall of Fame lunch in New York (IrishCentral)

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:37:24 PDT

By: Irish Voice Reporters

After missing the official Washington, D.C. St. Patrick’s Day celebrations on Tuesday because he was in Rome for the papal installation, Vice President Joe Biden will spend Wednesday morning hosting Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Enda Kenny at a breakfast at the vice presidential residence, and Thursday delivering remarks at the Hall of Fame luncheon in New York hosted by Irish Voice sister publication Irish America magazine.

Vice President Joe Biden will lead the U.S. delegation to the Inaugural Mass of Pope Francis I (IrishCentral)

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 04:30:03 PDT

By: KATE HICKEY

Vice President Joe Biden, an Irish American Catholic, will lead the American delegation to the Inaugural mass of Pope Francis I on Tuesday next.

Vice President Joe Biden back riding the train - as sequester cancels flights (IrishCentral)

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 04:35:56 PST

By: IrishCentral Staff Writers

Vice President Joe Biden is happy to take the train home to Delaware, foregoing the expensive flights on Air Force 2 that are the perks of his office in favor of the much more budget friendly Amtrak.

Vice President Joe Biden to be honored in Irish America Hall of Fame -- Biden set to be main speaker at annual Irish America event (IrishCentral)

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 04:16:40 PST

Vice President Joe BidenOur sister publication Irish America magazine is delighted to announce that Vice President Joe Biden will be the main speaker and an honoree at the annual Irish America Hall of Fame event in March in New YorkThe Irish America Hall of Fame was founded in 2010 by Irish America magazine to honor the extraordinary achievements of Irish American leadersBiden is of Irish descent on his maternal side of the family His great-grandfather, James Finnegan, emigrated to America from Carlingford, Co READ MORE

Vice President Joe Biden attends party for new Congressman Patrick Murphy (IrishCentral)

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 05:22:03 PST

By: DARA KELLY

Vice President Joe Biden stopped by a rooftop party in honor of new U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy near Washington DC on Thursday.

Vice President Joe Biden set to mock himself in ‘Parks & Recreation’ cameo - VIDEO (IrishCentral)

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 05:28:29 PST

By: CATHY HAYES

Joe Biden has filmed his cameo in the hit NBC hit comedy “Parks & Recreation.” Biden’s episode will air next Thursday.

Vice President Joe Biden compare Latinos struggle in US to Irish immigrants (IrishCentral)

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 05:10:11 PDT

By: ANTOINETTE KELLY

Speaking to an audience of Hispanic activists, Vice President Joe Biden compared the struggles of Latino Americans to that of his own Irish ancestors and cast the GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney as out of touch with the American people.

New information on Vice President Joe Biden’s Irish roots uncovered (IrishCentral)

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 04:20:03 PDT

By: NIALL O'DOWD

The staff of Vice President Joe Biden have unearthed new information about his Irish roots with an eye to a trip there soon after the election.

Vice President Biden gently mocks his Irish roots and family drinking problems (IrishCentral)

Thu, 03 May 2012 04:38:02 PDT

By: JAMES O'SHEA

Vice President Joe Biden refused to toast Mexican and American friendship with water, saying he could hear his Irish grandfather shouting ‘Joey, No” he joked.

US Vice-President Joe Biden invited to attend major Irish economic forum (IrishCentral)

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 07:46:16 PDT

By: CATHAL DERVAN

The Irish government wants US vice-president Joe Biden to follow Barack Obama’s lead – and help revitalize Ireland’s employment market.

Black and Tans were not so bad says new book ---savagery in Irish War of Independence on all sides (IrishCentral)

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 10:40:11 PDT

The Black and Tans were not so bad after all it seems according to a new book That will come as disturbing news to millions of Irish Americans including, by his own account, Vice President Joe Biden, who were raised on stories of Black and Tans atrocities in Ireland during the War of Independence (The above picture is a still from the movie "The Wind that Shakes the Barley" on this very topic) The Black and Tans were generally thought of as the scum of the British system, psychopaths released from jails and turned into an evil militia and sent to Ireland Not so says a new book by historian David Leeson entitled "The Black and Tans; British Police and Auxiliaries in the Irish War of Independence 1920-21 READ MORE

Joe Biden saves the day for Obama in debt ceiling deal -- Vice President is key figure in deal with GOP in senate (IrishCentral)

Mon, 01 Aug 2011 04:40:05 PDT

VICE President Joe Biden is seen as the man who created the breakthrough in the debt ceiling talks with the Republican PartyBiden, the Irish American vice president, had a lengthy Senate career before taking up his present job, and has maintained close contacts with former colleagues on both sidesUnlike President Obama, who spent only a couple of years in the Senate, Biden still has great credibility on both sidesHe conducted secret negotiations with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, with whom he has a cordial relationship, throughout the worst of the crisis READ MORE

Vice President Joe Biden remembers his Irish mother (IrishCentral)

Sat, 09 Jan 2010 05:57:56 PST

By: PATRICK ROBERTS

Vice President Joe Biden has been remembering his mother, Catherine Eugenia Finnegan, known as Jean, whose family came from Mayo, after she died yesterday aged 92.