Obama may be Irish –
An Irish rector says he may have found an ancestral link between U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama and a family in Moneygall, Ireland.
Rector Stephen Neill told CBS News that antique records in a parishioner’s basement show that the Illinois senator’s great, great, great, great grandfather may have been Joseph Kearney, a shoemaker whose shop once stood on a now-vacant field.
“We’ve got records going back to 1799,” Neill told CBS. “It may well be that this may become a major tourist attraction depending on the results of the presidential election next year.
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Information | TheFourEyes May 17, 2007
