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Clare County Council is to invite the US President Barack Obama to visit the county.
Councillors agreed to issue the formal invitation at their meeting in Ennis last evening
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The move forms part of efforts to entice more tourists to visit Clare.
President Obama’s predecessor in office, President George W Bush, famously visited the county in 2004 for the EU-US summit at Dromoland Castle, while John F Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon are among the serving US Presidents to have set foot on Clare soil.
The invitation stemmed from a motion raised by Independent Ennis Councillor and general election hopeful James Breen
