Obama’s Irish cousin lands new role as television star

[a kennedy]

Barack Obama’s distant cousin Henry Healy has landed a new role as a television star – promoting Ireland as a tourist destination.

Moneygall native Healy and local Church of Ireland rector Stephen Neill have been signed up by Irish tourist authorities ahead of the President’s visit.

The two locals are credited as the men responsible for President Obama’s historic visit to his ancestral homeland next Monday.

Now they will promote more visits to Irish shores as the faces of a new Tourism Ireland campaign abroad.

Healy, a distant cousin of President Obama, expressed his delight at the campaign and his part in it.
“I feel it is my civic duty to promote Ireland abroad and to boost tourism,” said Healy as the likes of CNN, ABC, BBC, Reuters, the Boston Globe and Time arrived in Moneygall.

President Obama’s advanced security team also landed in Moneygall on Monday, accompanied by staff from Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs.

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Obamas-Irish-cousin-lands-new-role-as-television-star--121990214.html

[damntexdem]

1. Well, good for O'Bama's distant cousin.

;-)

[Keith Bee]

2. Heavens to Begorrah!

K&R

[Mopar151]

3. That's gonna fuck Newt's message up....

Good!

Hope we get to see pictures, and he brings the family and the dog.

[lunatica]

4. Some great grandfather sure got around

Maybe I'm related to him too.