Paul Hosford: After the clichés, Biden cites Yeats to honour the 'glory' of his Irish connections

Despite his clumsy aside about alcohol, the US president struck the right note about the hope for sustained peace in Ireland

Britain's Northern Ireland minister Chris Heaton-Harris, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, and US special envoy for Northern Ireland Joe Kennedy III at the Friends of Ireland lunch in Washington DC.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends
and say my glory was I had such friends 

US president Joe Biden leaned into the west of Ireland in his remarks in the Oval Office on Friday, quoting WB Yeats's 'The Municipal Gallery Revisited' (1937) to underline the relationship between Ireland and America.