The Irish way is to plámás him into thinking what a great guy he is and that great guys do great things and one good turn deserves another...

Interestingly the Irish American vote is a swing constituency and could be very useful to Obama in securing his own re-election and that of a dem congress. Visiting the oul sod won't do him a bit of harm and throwing a few billion Ireland's way by way of low interest loans won't cost him real money in terms of his budgetary and debt problems...

Index of Frank's Diaries