'You have to help me [Taoiseach] with the Gaelic expression, a hundred thousand welcomes.'
US President Joe Biden spoke a “cúpla focal” earlier on St Patrick’s Day as he reminisced about his last trip to Ireland.Speaking at the Speaker’s Lunch on Capitol Hill, Mr Biden spoke about his own family in Ireland and even asked Taoiseach Leo Varadkar for help with a famous Irish phrase.“I stand here today as a descendant of the Blewitts of Co Mayo and the Finnegans of Co Louth,” Mr Biden said.
“The seventh year, I think it was, the Taoiseach [Enda Kenny] went into the Oval, sat down and before Barrack [Obama] could and said ‘for God’s sake, Barrack, let the boy come home. Let him come home’. “[Mr Kenny] said, ‘he’ll get 100,000 welcomes’. And it was one of the ones they didn't plan on me bringing my whole family.”
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