(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); US President Barack Obama has set foot in his ancestral home in Ireland.

The president and the First Lady arrived in Moneygall, Co Offaly, where up to 3,000 people lined the streets to welcome him home.

Mr Obama's great-great-great-great-grandfather was a shoemaker in the rural village and his son, Falmouth Kearney, left for New York in 1850.

The couple's short visit includes a trip down Main Street to the Kearney ancestral home, where he will be greeted by John Donovan, the owner of the house, and his family. They will also visit Ollie Hayes' pub to meet extended family members including representatives of the Healy, Donovan and Benn families.

The President and his wife Michelle both hugged his distant cousin Henry Healy on the street outside the ancestral home.

There were concerns the President's trip to the Midlands would be interrupted by severe weather with gale force winds and driving rain threatening to force security chiefs to order his helicopter grounded.

But the Obamas touched down in sports fields just outside the village to travel the final few miles by car. The couple were greeted with huge cheers from several thousand onlookers.

The records from two local parishes, Moneygall and Shinrone, were on display in the pub where the President will see first-hand evidence of his Irish roots.

The Obamas went walkabout among the crowds, shaking and clasping hands before the President lifted a baby to hold in his arms, and his wife followed suit with a second child. The organisers of the historic event had warned that a meet and greet with the public was very unlikely.

The couple spent 15 minutes with locals signing autographs, posing for pictures and shaking hands. They then crossed the road to the site of Mr Obama's ancestral home, where a one-storey thatched home once stood. There was a picture inside of what the house looked like and land records to show his ancestors owned it.

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He also had time to stop and have a pint of the black stuff in Ollie Hayes Bar good man obama.

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He is also set to attend a concert in the college green area of Dublin city centre rumor has it U2 are set to make a surprise apperance i hope the hell they do as Jedward are preforming at the concert thats something no man should have to see.

So it's possible he's a descendant of a leprechaun?

Well, it explains this picture then...
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When I read ancestral home, I was expecting something a little different than Ireland.
I guess he has to go back to Adam and Eve to trace any Black ancestral history.

He probably would have admitted his Irish heritage sooner but wanted to wait till the Rapture date passed , In case God was as shocked as the rest of the world...Although God already knows what Horny bastards they are

Ye m8 they reckon hes 5% irish i wonder what the other 95% is lol

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lol true but that rapture dude is nothing but a con man making money off peoples fears and beliefs hes worth like $140 million just from this shit alone although hes 89 he should spend the rest off his days in prison hes nothing but a conman,well you know what they say if you are guilable enough then maybe you deserve what you get i wouldnt give this piece of shit 1 cent all his followers should kill him at least he be right in a way it be the end of the world for him.