Ireland yesterday - Barack Obama drinks Guinness and tells jokes in Moneygall pub on official visit to Ireland - next the UK

Drink Guinness and live to an old age - my grandmother´s recipe until she died at the age of 93

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Barack and Michelle Obama share a pint of the black stuff with locals in a pub in the US President's ancestral home of Moneygall in Ireland.
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Moneygall

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Moneygall (Irish: Muine Gall, meaning "foreigners' thicket") is a small village in County Offaly in Ireland, on the M7 route between Dublin and Limerick. At the time of the 2006 census, the village had a population of 298. Moneygall has a Catholic church, five shops, a post office, a national school, a Garda station and two pubs. The nearest Church of Ireland church, Borrisnafarney, is located 2km from the village beside the former Loughton Demense.
While most of the village is located in County Offaly, the Gaelic Athletic Association playing field is located in County Tipperary and Moneygall play in the Tipperary Hurling Championship. As of the general election in 2011, Moneygall is also part of the Tipperary North 

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Falmouth Kearney, the great-great-great grandfather of President of the United States Barack Obama, emigrated from Moneygall to New York City at the age of 19 in 1850 and eventually resettled in Tipton County, Indiana. Kearney's father, Joseph, had been the village shoemaker, then a wealthy skilled trade. Indeed the whole Kearney family emigrated to Ross County, Ohio in the first half of the 19th century. Falmouth Kearney's youngest daughter, Mary Ann, moved from Indiana to Kansas after her father's death in 1878. Mary Ann Kearney is the paternal grandmother of Stanley Dunham, President Obama's maternal grandfather.