The search for the next Irish president of America has yet to begin

WE’RE running out of time. With only six months to the US presidential election, one task, worryingly, has not begun: Finding Irish links to the next American president.
The search for the next Irish president of America has yet to begin
Mon, 21 Mar, 2016 - 00:00
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Colm O'Regan

Columnist with the Irish Examiner.

It’s not looking good.

On the one hand, you have Trump. Trump’s grandfather was Friedrich Trumpf, from Kallstadt in Germany.

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