For the second year in a row, O'bama's closest Irish relation will raise a presidential pint for St. Paddy's...President Obama has been chummy with his closest living Irish relation, eighth cousin Henry Healy, since they met at a family reunion when Mr. Obama made his first visit to Ireland in 2011. Healy visited his famous cousin at the White House to celebrate St. Patrick's Day last year, and he'll be there again this year, he told Obama Foodorama. President Obama will devote most of Tuesday, March 19, 2013 to celebrating America's favorite Irish holiday, which will include a visit from Taoiseach Enda Kenny of Ireland. (Above: The President and Healy in the Diplomatic Reception Room last March; the Gaelic inscription is "Yes we can!," Obama's 2008 campaign slogan).
Healy, now 28, was a bookkeeper in the little village of Moneygall, County Offaly, when the discovery of his relationship to Mr. Obama in 2007 threw him into the international spotlight. His connection to the President dates to a marriage between the Healy and Kearney families in 1761. He is now a 'Community Activation Leader' for the nonprofit Ireland Reaching Out, a tourism project that runs IrelandXO, a genealogy campaign aiming to connect the 70 million Irish diaspora living abroad with their Emerald Isle roots.
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