They are at it again! The old Irish habit of claiming links to the United States President continues unabated.
An Irish town that claims to be an ancestral home of US president-elect Barack Obama is mulling plans for a heritage centre in his name, a spokesman said on Friday.
Offaly County Council already owns the site of the demolished building in Moneygall, where Obama's great-great-great grandfather on his mother's side grew up before emigrating to the US in 1850.
Councillor Peter Ormond will ask the council to consider building a heritage centre or museum on the site at a meeting next week. "I would like to see us put something in place pretty soon," he told the assembled media.
"If Obama did decide to come in three or four year's time then we would have something in place. There is no point in trying to do it a few months before he comes," he added, saying that publicity about Obama's Irish roots has already led to an increase in US tourists to the area.
Did you ever of such eejits in your life! Why don't they use their energy to create few jobs in County Offaly , a place that is becoming a wasteland with so many jobs lost in the last year. A monument to Obama is not going to produce many! Would ye ever get real down there?
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