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President Barack Obama revealed his reading habits while hinting that he may well yet fulfil his dream of delivering a speech in Eyre Square like his hero JFK – but after he has left office.
President Obama showed a familiarity with this city’s premier media source that astonished the hundreds gathered for the annual St Patrick’s Day address in the White House on Tuesday.
He kicked off his final St Patrick’s Day presidential engagement by looking to the West of Ireland, referring in detail to the contents of the Galway City Tribune’s article last July.
“Some of you may have seen a front page of the Galway City Tribune last summer that blared in huge print ‘He’s on his way’, ‘Hopes that Obama will make Paddy’s Day speech in Eyre Square’.
“I don’t know how this rumour got started – it might have been somebody on my staff who just wanted another trip to Ireland” he joked with the crowd.
“But I do have joyous memories of my own trips to the Emerald Isle, Ireland really is as Seamus Heaney described it – ‘a place that can catch the heart off guard and blow it open’.
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“Most of all, I remember how the Irish people made me feel so at home like my cousin Henry and his pub keeper Ollie who are here again today.
“So, I now understand what President Kennedy meant when he said he’d endorse the Democratic candidate who had promised to appoint him ambassador to Ireland.
“I’d like to point out I’ve not yet endorsed. A certain commitment quietly made would not hurt…,” he enthused to a roomful of laughter.
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