US President Joe Biden to return to County Mayo roots as his Irish visit concludes. POTUS
US President Joe Biden will return to his roots in County Mayo on Friday on the final day of his visit to Ireland.The president is due to speak at a homecoming celebration outside St Muredach's Cathedral in the town of Ballina on Friday night.It is thought that the president will be presented with a brick from a fireplace that is the last surviving piece of his ancestral home in the town.
"I hope there is respect given to that because they are true ties, they are sincere links, it's not engineered, it's not fabricated.Image caption,Mags Downey Martin of Ballina Chamber of Commerce said it was "an epic, unbelievable, out of this world experience for Ballina"."On the one hand, it's a very monumental day - we're welcoming the President Joe Biden back.
"This is a very different experience this time, but equally extremely important and symbolic that he's decided to come back to Ballina, come back to his home in County Mayo."
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