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Sat 05 May 2010There's no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama
BIOGRAPHY:Barak Obama: the Road from Moneygall, by Stephen McDonogh, Brandon, 300pp. €16.99
The story of Obama’s Irish lineage was only revealed in 2007, during his campaign to secure the Democratic nomination for US president. When Obama heard the news his first thought was, as he later admitted, Why didn’t anyone discover this when I was running for office in Chicago? And he joked that he “used to put the apostrophe after the O, but that did not work”.
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