Will Boris visit Bunratty? Now, he may well be in a stand-off with our government over the back-stop, but Britain’s new Prime Minister Boris Johnson has deep family connections in the Mid-West.
Ennis-based historian and genealogist Declan Barron has discovered that Johnson’s seventh great grandfather was a James O’Gorman born in Bunratty Castle in 1688.
The connection prompted Mayor of Clare, Cllr Cathal Crowe to invite Mr. Johnson to visit the county.
Declan Barron joined us on the show to tell us more about that ancestral connection.
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