O'bama is from....

[youngfella]

Moneygall


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/us_elections_2008/7713759.stm

[full back]

Moneyglass


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/us_elections_2008/7713759.stm

Or even Moneygall

[Minder]

Youngfella your not gettin enough............ 

[Donagh]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=EADUQWKoVek&eurl=http://www.politics.ie/political-humour/37124-obama-irish.html

[delboy]

clicky seems he didnt play it up to much as he might have been viewed as the wrong type of 'irish'.

[ziggysego]

You'd be better spending your time on other websites youngfella. LL can point you in the direction of a few. He has 100s of them bookmarked.

[Maguire01]

clicky seems he didnt play it up to much as he might have been viewed as the wrong type of 'irish'.

What a load of crap. Ireland does not equal Catholic Ireland - why would it matter than his ancestors were Protestant? I'd assume Obama - especially given his obvious status as an 'ethnic minority' would not be as narrow minded to assume that there's a 'wrong' type of Irish.

He probably didn't 'play it up' as his Irish roots were not very significant in campaigning for presidency.

[youngfella]

sure jack charlton was made into the right kinda 'Irish'

[pintsofguinness]

That's embarrassing.

[westmayo]

And no surprise that Mayo can lay claim to the man the second citizen of America, sure were used to coming second.

http://archives.tcm.ie/irishexaminer/2008/08/27/story70805.asp

[ziggysego]

And no surprise that Mayo can lay claim to the man the second citizen of America, sure were used to coming second.

http://archives.tcm.ie/irishexaminer/2008/08/27/story70805.asp

That's the 3rd county in Ireland claiming Biden as their own.

[Hardy]

Who does he think he is - Charlie Haughey?

[delboy]

clicky seems he didnt play it up to much as he might have been viewed as the wrong type of 'irish'.

What a load of crap. Ireland does not equal Catholic Ireland - why would it matter than his ancestors were Protestant? I'd assume Obama - especially given his obvious status as an 'ethnic minority' would not be as narrow minded to assume that there's a 'wrong' type of Irish.

He probably didn't 'play it up' as his Irish roots were not very significant in campaigning for presidency.

Judging how american politics work though if there was any advantage to be had it would have been exploited, his campaign team obviously didn't think it would fly with the irish american voters.
The offspring of Obamas irish ancestors are highly unlikely to regard themselves as irish americans, most likely they would regard themselves as stratight forward americans or dare i say it rednecks.

[muppet]

After announcing his running-mate as Senator Joseph Biden last Saturday, celebrations commenced in north Mayo where Obama's right-hand man has strong family ties.

The Mayo townlands of Rappa and Cooneal, outside Ballina, were home to the senator's ancestors.

Still no sign of Sligonian or Rossfan claiming him.

[Square Ball]

that song is cringe inducing in the extreme