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The town of Ballina on Ireland's Atlantic coast is preparing for the visit of the 46th president of the US and the only one who can say their great-great-great grandfather sold some 27,000 bricks nearly 200 years ago to help build the cathedral there.A total of 20,000 people have registered to see him. He'll be speaking at the very same cathedral his ancestor had a hand in building. Before he arrived he said he was in listening mode.
Walking around, picking up on the odd bit of conversation, it's the only thing people are talking about. Many marvelling at how clean and tidy the town looks. And how it was all paid for. Paving stones have been blasted clean and I saw a local coffee shop getting a new paint job.His warm-up acts are what one lady told me she was most looking forward to. My taxi driver last night said:"Biden's visit will be good for the town but we won't be able to work tomorrow".
"Of all the American presidents that I've seen and met, he has the most active Irishness of them all," he said. On Wednesday, the president visited Co Louth, where some of his family have been traced, and the visit to Co Mayo tracks the other side of his family tree.President Joe Biden, who landed in Belfast on Tuesday evening, is nearing the end of his historic four-day visit to Northern Ireland and Ireland.
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