Observers speculated that Biden meant to say his cousin beat New Zealand's All Blacks but instead referred to the national rugby team as the 'Black and Tans.'
Joe Biden mistakenly referred to New Zealand's national union rugby team, the All Blacks, as the Black and Tans while paying tribute to a cousin, former Irish rugby union player Rob Kearney.Joe Biden
stumbled over a tribute to a cousin on Wednesday, congratulating his Irish relative for beating"the Black and Tans," a team that doesn't exist. Speaking at the Windsor Bar in Dundalk, Ireland, this week, Biden gave a nod to the cousin, former Irish rugby union player Rob Kearney. The president said the tie he was wearing was given to him by Kearney, whom he described as being a"hell of a rugby player who beat the hell out of the Black and Tans."
Irish observers quickly noticed that the president may have meant New Zealand's national union rugby team, the All Blacks, which Kearney's team defeated at Chicago's Soldier Field in 2016.'s senior U.S. politics reporter, said things likely got"muddled" since Kearney was notably on the team that beat New Zealand in 2016 and because the rugby player had no tie to the Royal Irish Constabulary.
During his visit to Ireland this week, President Joe Biden delivers a speech at Belfast's Ulster University on Wednesday.
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