O'Bama.

Enda is really giving it welly now ....

Agreed Vubiant,he's playing a stormer..

fair play to him. no chance biffo could have put on a show like that

Woo-hoo ....the koopla ****le !

yorlack, biffo would have matched him pint for pint! 

wonder will edna tell obama the N joke from 2002

I think he is flying out at 7 30 tonight as the ash cloud is due here in the morning.

id say ends wife would match them too soapp

two v good speeches!!

enda was superb, thank fook biffo got the boot!

Obama must have some memory recall .  No sign of any notes or anything , and it all sounded well .

Kelly,great feel good speech but he used autocue,one either side of the podium.

Reminded me of the election campaigns of my youth when our politicians got up on lorries in the market square with microphones and faced the crowd.Now all we have is harangueing from V.Browne.

he must be the best man to make a speech i ever heard.even better than clinton..lets hope he helps pull us out of the ****..a great few days for ireland with the queen and now obama...maybe the start of a new dawn after all the negativity the last few years...

A complete joke of a visit. Pure party politics for Obamas own benefit and atypical Ireland, they cant even organise it right. The centre is an absolute mess with traffic and for what Obama and F**king Jedward.

I'm as cynical as the next guy but you can't knock what happened here today,the Moneygall visit was way more than the call of duty.

Good article by Mary Ellen Synon in today's Irish Daily Mail.
She really tells it like it is ..e.g she was the first I heard to moot the then unspeakable prospect of the collapse of the euro about 3 yrs. ago.
Brilliant commentator whose writing is informed , witty and free from bullsh1t....

(wish we had more like that on the forum.

Anyone see the Irish Obama lookalike on TV getting interviwed ?

mary ellen synons past is littered with contoversial stuff.a lose cannon and one not to be taken seriously on any subject.. .check it out.no wonder no one would employ her only the rag that is the "irish"mail...have you ever read the english mail?the one that loves us so much!?!!?!?

obama is a war criminal,he should be strung up for the Murder of Gaddafis three little grandchildren.Kenny is a Mug of the highest order !

Ireland very unlikely to ever again witness such scenes with the visit of an American President truly over the moon to have a strong and direct connection to THE OULD SOD.... an outstanding occassion a truly remarkable visit...Obama delighted to find his roots or at least some of his roots trace back to Ireland, when only a short while ago, and before he got Bin Ladin, many Americans were convinced he was of pure muslim extraction thus making Obama a most likely 1 term President...not any more....

scoobyknows,whatever your opinion of Kenny is,you would be very harsh to slag him off on his speech there imo.

hes gone already! room rates too high in Dublin ( as per usual )

thank god he is gone, joke of a visit, hopefully people can get back to work and trying to sort out this mess we are in....

Guy arrested in Tara St Dart station earlier on today,said he was going to Kill Barrack...

Punchestown...someone on another forum said that chap was goin to  Kill-mainham and cops got edgy..........

Ah poor Cowen would have enjoyed them Pints with Barackuda and Mishhh. Today lifted the spirits of the Irish souls. Great speech by Obama and In dah Kenny was as good. Moneygall the capital village of Ireland.

Kenny robbed obamas speech from 08 LOL ..!

Anyone yhat thinks that speech was robbed is an absolute idiot.

Fools borrow,,,,but a GENIUS steals......oh dats stolen now 2...but from whom ?????????

Martin Cahill?

Kenny is an embarrassment !

Enda is winning me over....I not sure i feel okay about this situation

On a recent trip to Chicago and New York I did the usual pilgrimmage to the local "taverns" to meet first generation Irish (recent and decades-old arrivals)  and the experience was always as it has been: you leave with a sense of sadness and sympathy for a group of displaced people who are hard-drinking and who quickly delevop an intolerance of black African-Americans and who would still be wrapped in the green flag except we "at home" have moved on.

Our history in the US is fairly chequered when it comes to assimilation and tolerance and Obama's speech and, more importantly, what remained unsaid, reminded many of a darker side to the Irish "American dream" (including a piece in today's IT).

As a history reader with an interest in the American Civil War I always found the Irish role in the New York City Draft Riots of 1963 very illuminating.

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/317749.html

No friend of Ireland and no friend of the West.An insincere opportunist.