For the week that’s in it.
RTÉ Archives have this morning released footage of various US Presidential visits to Ireland throughout the years and some nifty design work (above).
Writes Áine Kerrigan:
Watch John F. Kennedy and his sisters chat and joke with their Irish relatives and take tea and salmon sandwiches on home-made bread on the ancestral farm in Dunganstown, Co. Wexford in 1963.
In 1970 Richard Nixon visited the Quaker burial ground where his mother’s ancestors were buried and then had a close encounter with an egg thrower on Lord Edward Street in Dublin.
In 1984 Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy were entertained by Irish dancers In Ballyporeen and presented with a pictorial record of the town.
Bill and Hillary Clinton took a walk among the throngs in College Green in 1995 and President Clinton pulled a young boy from the crush and Hillary was asked if she has ‘any sisters knocking around’.
Revisit the anti war protests of 2004 against the use of Shannon Airport as a transit stop for US troops heading to Iraq as US President George Bush arrives on Irish soil.
Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle were given a warm welcome on their visit to Moneygall, home of the president’s great great great grandfather in 2011 and they stopped for a quick pint in Ollie Hayes’ pub.
Which should take the edge off this week’s result, either way.