Essay from America: Clinton steels herself for Tuesday touchdown

Yes, we are needy about wanting every American president to think of us but Hillary Clinton really did reference Ireland in her very first remarks at her campaign rally in Pittsburgh.

She was thanking her host, Dan Rooney, “a great ambassador to Ireland”, who was the US ambassador here up to 2012 when he returned to the US to take over the Pittsburgh Steelers, the American football team his father founded.

Now here was Hillary in the Heinz Field, home ground of the Steelers, surrounded by displays of helmets and shoulder pads and looking like she could do with some.