World News / 17 April 2023
Biden’s Irish luck
US President Joe Biden has wrapped up an emotional 4-day trip to Ireland, where he explored his Irish heritage and celebrated the 25th anniversary of Ireland’s Good Friday peace agreement. But it was a chance encounter with a priest that most affected the US leader. On visiting a Catholic shrine, Biden discovered that the priest residing there was the man who’d delivered the last rites to his son Beau Biden, who died of brain cancer in 2015. “I gotta meet him, I gotta meet him,” Biden said before a 10-minute meeting that brought the President to tears. “He laughed, he cried, it just kind of hit the man,” another priest at the meeting said. Meanwhile, Ireland’s President Michael Higgins wasn’t too fussed about his meeting with Biden if the state of his desk is anything to go by…
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