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LeBron could call President Obama an ass and probably get away with it, but in fairness we think his slip of the tongue in the White House today was more down to nerves than anything else.
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Voting in the US presidential election has got underway and there are already signs of an unfair election.
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Around 150 million Americans will go to the polls today to vote in the US presidential elections, but they won’t technically be deciding the fate of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney just yet...
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Celebrities publicly endorsing a presidential candidate is nothing new, but then most celebrities aren’t quite as funny as Will Ferrell.
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Premature payouts have come back to haunt bookmakers before, but Paddy Power are so convinced of a Barack Obama victory in the US Presidential election that they’ve already started paying out.
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It doesn’t make an awful lot of sense but it’s pretty funny and far more watchable than the actual debate that went on between the US Presidential candidates.
It's Man Stuff » Dumb it down
Mitt Romney made some controversial comments recently. So Is Barack Obama returning to The White House now a foregone conclusion?
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When Barack Obama decided to hold an AMA (Ask me Anything) on Reddit, he was probably aware he could be in for a tough time from detractors. He probably didn’t expect to have his grammar corrected.
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Robbie Keane's move to the LA Galaxy wasn't just a boyhood dream come true; it also means that he now gets to rub shoulders with the likes of Barack Obama too.
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It happens every year and last night journalists, A-listers and Lindsay Lohan gathered for Barack Obama to tell tame jokes at the White House Correspondents Dinner.
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If you’re a fan of the American President and have absolutely shedloads of cash to spare, you might want to take a look at Barack Obama’s old car which recently went up for sale on eBay.
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US presidential candidate Mitt Romney moved one step closer to challenging Barack Obama later this year after one of the slimmest election victories in history last night.
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There’s no greater insult than ‘flipping the bird’ at somebody, especially when you’re on live television and that somebody happens to be the most powerful man on the planet.
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Barack Obama may be wishing he could re-assassinate Osama bin Laden, as the US President's poll numbers have now dropped to a historic low.
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The online edition of the Irish Times accidentally printed a picture of the US President to accompany a story about a tragic Dublin drowning.
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The Twitter account of the ‘fair and balanced’ US news network Fox News was outfoxed by hackers today – who incorrectly tweeted the death of President Obama.
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Taoiseach Enda Kenny has claimed the state visits of the Queen of England and US President Barack Obama were worth the €20m spent. What do you think?
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Weeks after dropping his presidential ambitions, US business mogul Donald Trump was spotted at a dinner date alongside former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.
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Barack Obama’s eight cousin Henry Healy is fending off the advances of smitten women after appearing on telly hugging his long-lost relative.
Entertainment » Video Games
Here's a canny bit of marketing, from the Polish PM no less - a copy of The Witcher 2 for none other than Barack Obama.
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US President Barack Obama was left with egg on his face in Buckingham Palace last night as his toast to Queen Elizabeth II went embarrassingly wrong.
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Meet the Obama visit's grumpiest couple - the Moneygall woman who said 'stick it up your whats-it, Barack' and the dour, unsmiling man on the TV screens during the President's speech.
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Learning from the master or blatant plagiarism? The similarities between Enda Kenny's speech at College Green and Barack Obama's inauguration address in 2008.
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The planet’s most powerful man took a break from catching terrorists and humiliating Donald Trump to pay us a visit. JOE's Robert Carry went to get a glimpse of the boss.
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Barack Obama’s 'Is féidir linn' speech in College Green rightly earned rave reviews, but actor Brendan Gleeson also brought the house down earlier in the day.
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Thousands were wowed by the words of Barack Obama at College Green on Monday evening; a few cynics called it join-the-dots oratory. You decide - here's the speech in full.
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US President Barack Obama cradled babies, drank a pint of Guinness and mixed freely with locals on a brief visit to his ancestral home in Moneygall, County Offaly.
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If there were any doubts about Barack Obama's claims to Irishness, they were well and truly dispelled by his performance in Healy's pub in Moneygall today.
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The vehicle carrying US President Barack Obama got stuck in the entrance to the American Embassy in Ballsbridge, Dublin 4 this afternoon.
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With Obama paying an historic visit to our Emerald Isle, Twitter users have been tweeting their joy, excitement and apologies for Jedward's inclusion in events.
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Barack Obama will address the masses at College Green this evening. The event is free and open to the public – but there are a number of security measures in place.
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US President Barack Obama has marked the start of his one-day visit to his forefathers’ old stomping ground by ... planting another tree in Áras an Uachtaráin.
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Irish people will have been trawling through the archives in search of any tenuous link to Barack Obama, but his real Irish ancestors were politicians, protestants and wig makers.
Entertainment » TV & Radio
A Panorama investigation asks whether Fifa presidential candidates Sepp Blatter and Mohamed bin Hammam are up to the job of heading an organisation facing a crisis over corruption allegations.
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US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle are to attend a free concert marking their visit in College Green in Dublin next Monday.
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With proven US citizen Barack Obama riding high in the polls following his audacious bin Laden assassination, Celebrity Apprentice host Donald Trump has dropped his presidential hopes.
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Ireland isn’t the most likely of places to find an al-Qaeda member waiting to kill US President Barack Obama on a state visit, or is it?
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Barack Obama's 88-year-old Kenyan step-grandmother Susan Obama has been threatened by Al-Shabaab, considered the African branch of al-Qaeda.
Style » Grooming
He’s the billionaire titan of American business, yet Rolling Stone were courageous enough to ask the question on everyone’s lips – “Is that a comb-over, Donald Trump?”
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Security for Barack Obama’s visit to Ireland is so tight that the US Secret Service will supply the beer to the pub in County Offaly where the US President will have a tipple.
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A Yiddish New York newspaper has apologised after printing a reproduction of the photo of Obama and his national security team watching the bin Laden raid, minus Hillary Clinton.
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If you're wondering why it took Barack Obama so long to announce Osama Bin Laden's death, it's because he had to hastily rewrite his speech.
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Barack Obama has told US TV network CBS that he will not release any images of Osama Bin Laden’s death.
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US President Barack Obama and his aides watched the death of Osama Bin Laden live from the White House.
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The White House has decided to release at least one photo of Bin Laden's death, a top source has told US news aggregation site The Drudge Report.
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Before the drama in Pakistan, Barack Obama was in top form at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
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Americans took to the streets late on Sunday night after President Obama announced the death of world's most wanted man, Osama bin Laden.
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The Barack Obama rally at Croke Park next month will be a free all-ticket affair, according to reports.
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Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has became the second Republican to begin the process of becoming a US presidential challenger by forming an exploratory committee.
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US President Barack Obama has today announced that he is to seek re-election in the 2012 Presidential election.
It's Man Stuff » Pic of the day
RTE presenter Derek Mooney joins residents of Moneygall as they take part in the shooting of a music video for new song 'Welcome Home President Barack Obama.'
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The America President is expected to pay a visit to Cork when he visits Ireland in May to unveil a statue to an African-American ex-slave.
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United States President Barack Obama has confirmed that he will visit Ireland in May of this year.