Naughton points to analysis of Barack Obama’s ancestry at The Irish Times as Ancestry.co.uk has rooted out Obama’s roots.
His third great grandfather was born in Ireland and immigrated to the United States in 1850.
BARACK OBAMA had a distant Irish cousin who went on to become provost of Trinity College and later bishop of Ossory, new research shows.
It has also been revealed that an Irish ancestor opposed political corruption in Dublin.
The Democratic nominee for the US presidential election is directly descended from the Kearneys of Shinrone and Moneygall, Co Offaly, the research has revealed.
His ancestry had already been traced back to a shoemaker in Moneygall on the Offaly-Tipperary border. Further research shows a Tipperary connection…
He joins other Irish Commander in Chief: Ronald Reagan’s great-grandfather, Michael O’Regan, and John F. Kennedy’s great-grandfather, Patrick Kennedy.