"There's No One as Irish as Barack O'Bama"
Thu, 2008-11-06 12:24
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"There's No One as Irish as Barack O'Bama"
Thu, 2008-11-06 12:24
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[url=http://www.limerickleader.ie/news/Limerick-brothers-celebrate-Obamas-win...'There's No One as Irish as Barack O'Bama,' a new hit by Hardy Drew and the Nancy Boys.[/url]
Everone is jumping on the bandwagon?
[url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2008/1103/1225523317197.html... Times: Obama's roots in County Offaly:[/url]
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Fulmuth Kearney, who is Obama's third great-grandfather, left Moneygall for New York in 1850 to eventually settle in Ohio."We've never seen such an interest in any election here ever before," said Henry Healy, who claims to be a distant relation of Hawaiian-born Mr Obama.
Mr Healy, whose family has been in Moneygall since 1750, has traced his family tree to meet the Kearney Obama dynasty.
"In 1760 a Joseph Kearney of the parish of Moneygall married a Sarah Healy also of the parish," he said. "Sarah and Joseph are great-grandparents to Fulmuth Kearney who was Barack's last link to Ireland," said Mr Healy.
Residents of Moneygall, on the N7 Limerick road, are gearing up for a US election party in Ollie Hayes's Bar in the town tomorrow night.