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# Barack Obama meets Irish cousin in Moneygall
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## Barack and Michelle Obama arrive in Moneygall, Ireland, where they are
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greeted by the US President's cousin Henry Healy - and screaming crowds.
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5:38PM BST 23 May 2011
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Barack Obama's great-great-great-grandfather Falmouth Kearney fled famine-
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ravaged Ireland for the New World 161 years ago.
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The 19-year-old cobbler's son could never have imagined that his great-great-
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great grandson would return to the country as US President.
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[97]: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/termsandconditions
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[98]: /archive/2011-5-28.html
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[99]: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/archive/
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[101]: /topics/weather/4142730/Weather-forecast.html
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