Just in time for St Patrick's Day, it has emerged that US presidential candidate Barrack Obama has an Irish great, great, great grandfather.
Obama, or as he may now be known, 'O'Bama', is a descendant of one Falmouth Kearney, who left famine-ravaged Ireland in 1850 and took a boat from Liverpool to New York.
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