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FIRST LADY OF the United States, Michelle Obama, has said she was “surprised” by the connection she felt during her Moneygall visit in May.
Though it is her husband Barack Obama who has the ancestral link to the tiny Co Offaly town, in a recent interview Obama said that she felt many emotions when the couple paid a visit on 23 May.
Reuters reports that when asked by a student during a forum at the University of Cape Town if she felt a kinship to Africa, she said “absolutely”, before adding:
I absolutely felt that connection in Moneygall [and was] a little more surprised by it.
The love, the warmth, the connection, the excitement. That was family, too. And that’s what I want my kids to understand – that your family is Granny in Kisumu, but it’s also your cousin in Moneygall. That is your history.
People thronged the streets for the Obama’s whistle-stop trip to Moneygall, where the couple visited Ollie Hayes’ pub, met some of the President’s relations, and sampled some Guinness.
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Seen a couple of pics from slane. Let’s just leave it at would be mortified!
Despite the pictures you speak of not appearing in the headlines you still feel it necessary to continue the humiliation of that young girl, The actions of some people over the last two days have been atrocious. You would swear no one in this country made a mistake by the reaction.
Getting down on your knees for two lads in front of thousands is a bit more than a mistake. Why shouldn’t we be allowed to have a chuckle at it?
You could laugh at the girl and then again you could show some class and strength of character but instead you decide to be part of an execution squad who’s sole purpose in humiliation.
Ah yes. It’s us humiliating her. We forced her onto her knees in front of 70, 000 people. We should be ashamed of ourselves.
Because two wrongs always make a right, eh?
Exactly Emmet. It was all laugh at that young lad at the races that was so drunk he couldn’t get up the little hill
It sucks to her her
Hahahahahahaha
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