Barack Obama Ireland Trip: President Chugs A Guinness While In Moneygall (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

AOL Travel News:

President Obama gave it the old college try while visiting a pub in Moneygall, Ireland on Monday.

The President and First Lady were visiting his ancestral home of Moneygall, the home of his great-great-great grandfather, Falmouth Kearney, when they visited a pub and drank them some Guinness.

Obama looked at the assembled crowd and quipped, "I have been told that people are very particular about the person behind the bar." He then glanced at the bartender and said "So people ask for this guy?"

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Comments

[Allyatx]

03:02 PM on 05/24/2011

Guinness is a replacement.

[TimJones]

12:51 PM on 05/24/2011

Hope it was a lite beer.

[dna user]

12:45 PM on 05/24/2011

His bar chat needs a little work, but it will do. For a President.

[GraphicMatt]

12:08 PM on 05/24/2011

I always wondered if they drank Irish Car Bombs over there? Perhaps they have a different name for it. Either way, would have been cool to see the Prez. chug one of those down.

[Cakey4814]

11:48 AM on 05/24/2011

How long before the Repubs turn this into some anti-american action?

[youknowwhat]

12:26 PM on 05/24/2011

Not long. Just read some of what they are posting here.

[asiclilpup]

11:46 AM on 05/24/2011

It's fun watching the trollies slamming the Pres for having a pint...........well at least he isn't on ritalin like dubya.

[theborg]

11:29 AM on 05/24/2011

'Boy, this stuff is good! Hey! Aid! Toss that football case thingie over here and let's play hit the buttons! Oh yeah!"

[MilwaukeeMike1985]

10:56 AM on 05/24/2011

Obama drinks up while the world around us crashes down...

[TechYes]

11:22 AM on 05/24/2011

Another 5 cents worth.

[xXJoeyBagodonutsXx]

12:22 PM on 05/24/2011

Your influence is a cheap commodity.

[jlyn]

11:54 AM on 05/24/2011

So he drank a glass of Guinness. At least he isn't an alcoholic brain-addled Shrub.

[gwinegarden]

10:06 AM on 05/24/2011

Sorry, I could not drink Guinness even for a photo-op.

[stanton89]

09:45 AM on 05/24/2011

I wish the Obamas would stay in Ireland and drink with their new found relatives!!

[TechYes]

10:09 AM on 05/24/2011

Some people will say anything for 5 cents a post.

[oldgrendel]

11:12 AM on 05/24/2011

5 cents? They are way overpaid if quality has anything to do with it.

[asiclilpup]

11:27 AM on 05/24/2011

5 cents?? When did they get a raise?

[pa30]

09:42 AM on 05/24/2011

Another beer summit,another holiday.

[Jerseytime]

12:54 PM on 05/24/2011

The record for days one vacation for a President is held by W., by a wide margin.

[Duppy]

09:28 AM on 05/24/2011

Is that guinness beer. Yuck. The only way I can drink that is with cream. Guinness and cream whipped up in a blender is great

[Aesthete]

10:10 AM on 05/24/2011

Fascinating. I tried Guiness once. It felt like a heavy brew that could almost stand alone without the glass to contain it.

[oldgrendel]

11:14 AM on 05/24/2011

And that is the great and glorious beauty of the greatest pint on Earth!

[headly67]

09:12 AM on 05/24/2011

Fox New's Bolling Tweets: Obama Is "Chugging 40's" In Ireland

They are not even holding back any more.

[headly67]

09:07 AM on 05/24/2011

The right seem so incredibly jealous that Obama is greeted so warmly in Ireland while Bush can't travel in Europe for fear of being arrested for war crimes.

I love it.

We finally have a real leader after 8 horrific years.

[Robert 999]

09:33 AM on 05/24/2011

Bottoms up Mr. President, a well deserved beer with our Irish friends.

[headly67]

09:00 AM on 05/24/2011

Racist Fox News strikes again.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201105230043

[TechYes]

09:43 AM on 05/24/2011

They don't even try to hide the fact that they're really GOP-TV.

[oldgrendel]

10:07 AM on 05/24/2011

What do you expect from idiots?