While speaking about Irish former international rugby Rob Kearney — who is the president’s fifth cousin — Biden called him “a hell of a rugby player and he beat the hell out of the Black and Tans.”…
In yet another cringeworthy gaffe, President Biden on Wednesday accidentally made reference to British forces that persecuted Irish people instead of a New Zealand rugby team while delivering a speech in Ireland.
Biden appeared to have intended to say New Zealand “All Blacks” rugby squad, according to a White House transcription of his remarks at the Windsor bar in Dundalk, County Louth. and Northern Ireland commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement that put an end to decades of sectarian violence between Catholics and Protestants known as “The Troubles.”Tensions still remain high and Irish Republican dissidents opposed to the peace process have been blamed for occasional outbreaks of violence since the 1998 signing between Britain and Ireland.
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