O'Bama go bragh!

Irish singer Shay Black sings "There's No one as Irish as Barack Obama" at Berkeley's Starry Plough Irish Session
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EADUQWKoVek

Irish television report on Obama's ancestery in Moneygall, County Offlay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcQiiLpNf2Q

German television service ZDF (Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen) has a nice report, with lots of good visi=uals at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yixqi1nRm14. Unfortunately (for most of us), it's in German. But the pictures are nice.

And a story in The Irish Times at http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2008/1105/breaking1.htm

Ronan McGreevy in Moneygall, where It was already Wednesday, Nov. 5, when the returns from California put Obama over the top. He set the scene:

The cup nestled under an American flag and the walls of the pub, one of only two in the village, were plastered with Obama posters.

For many the celebrations were simply a continuation from the all night Sunday and all day Monday routine which follows a historic county final win.

The Hardy Drew and the Nancy Boys made an appearance singing that song There's no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama. If you haven't heard it yet, you may hear nothing else for the next four years.

Cup? What's this about a cup. McGreevy explained the local folks had two victories to celebrate, Obama's and a junior hurling (Irish football) team that won a championship match in neighboring Co. Tipperary:

Ever since diligent research by local Church of Ireland priest Stephen Neill revealed the improbable link between Mr Obama and his great-great-great grandfather Fulmouth Kearney who left Moneygall in 1850, they were preparing for an epic night, and it isn't the first one they've had this week.

Moneygall might geographically be in Offaly, but spiritually and sportingly it is in Tipperary and the junior hurlers were still celebrating the club's first ever county title which they won at the death by a point on Sunday.