US president Barack Obama was fascinated by records proving his Irish ancestry, a vicar who unearthed them has revealed.

GIVEN his stated position of “honesty and straight talk in the pursuit of ecumenism”, I find the manner in which Rev Canon Stephen Neill (Letters, July 20) denounces the Vatican’s recent document ‘Normae de Gravioribus Delictis’ rather bizarre.

OFFALY is getting ready for an official visit from the most powerful man in the world.

A small Irish village is getting ready for an official visit from the most powerful man in the world.

US presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s ancestry has been traced back to a shoemaker in a small Irish village.