President Joe Biden’s Tuesday-to-Saturday trip to Northern Ireland will include a trip over the border from the UK-held Ulster and into the Republic’s County Mayo to visit with unnamed distant relatives in the whiskey-soaked northwestern hinterlands of the Emerald Isle, NBC News reports.
“He will meet with relatives, visit places of significance to the Finnegans of County Louth and the Blewitts of County Mayo and discuss how a fierce pride in being Irish and a value system that says everyone is entitled to be treated with dignity and respect have been passed down to each generation,” said a White House official, who should be warned that the president may not actually be able to understand a single word these relatives are saying.