President joins locals for drink in maternal ancestral town

(23 May 2011) SHOTLIST 1. US President Barack Obama greeting cheering locals on his way to the pub 2. Sign at Hayes' Bar 3. Sign reading "Beer Stouts" 4. Obama inside the pub, talking with people UPSOUND (English) "And I am very, very grateful to all of you and I know the town has put in a lot of work for this extraordinary day, so we really appreciate it ... and with that I'm going to have a pint." (Upsound people applauding) 5. Obama with 26-year-old Henry Healy, a distant cousin of the US president 6. Obama greeting local women 7. Obama posing for photo op with locals including Haley (front). Zoom in on Haley 8. Obama shaking hands with publican Ollie Hayes and his wife UPSOUND: (English) Barack Obama, U.S. President: "Good to see you sir. Thank you, and is this your wife? (Bar owner: "My wife") So nice to see you. You look beautiful. I suspect you don't always dress up this much. (Laughter.) Huh? She looks spectacular. You look like you are going to the ball." 9. Zoom out of Obama's security detail outside the pub, flags of Ireland, the EU and the US outside, onlookers on the other side of the road 10. Obama with a pint of stout, toasting with others at bar of Hayes pub; he then drinks and talks with people there UPSOUND: (English) Barack Obama, U.S. President: "(Locals: "Slainte") Obama: "Slainte" (means 'health' and is a traditional toast in Ireland) All right. (Obama drinking, locals cheering) That is good stuff there. I need one for the Ambassador. Cheers." 11. Obama talking to bartender UPSOUND (English) Obama: "What I realised was that you guys are keeping the best stuff here. So, you know, I am very impressed. It is delicious, it is wonderful." 12. Obama walking out of pub 13. US First Lady Michelle greeting cheering locals 14. Ireland's former Prime Minister Brian Cowen 15. Obama greeting crowd, holding baby handed to him by a local 16. Michelle shaking hands with locals 17. Mid of Obama greeting people 18. Mid of crowd 19. Obama signing poster reading "Failte (gaelic for 'welcome') Obama" STORLYINE President Barack Obama paid a joyful visit Monday to the small Irish village where his great-great-great grandfather once lived and worked as a shoemaker, an improbable and memorable pilgrimage for America's first black president into his Irish past. Along with First Lady Michelle Obama, the president walked the thronged Main Street of quaint Moneygall, where his ancestor on his Kansas-born mother's side, Falmouth Kearney, lived until leaving for the United States in 1850 at the height of Ireland's Great Famine. Obama's roots in the town were discovered during the 2008 presidential campaign. The president raised a pint of Guinness in Ollie Hayes' Bar, held up a baby and shook innumerable hands. He took a look at Kearney's baptism records - the documents that established his connection to the town - and even got to meet, hug and drink with a distant family member: Henry Healy, a 26-year-old accountant for a plumbing firm. The US first couple spent extended time greeting Moneygall residents, who had braved the earlier rain to see them. The thrilled villagers responded by waving American and Irish flags and breaking into periodic cries of "Obama! Obama!" Both of the Obamas stretched to shake seemingly every hand they could reach. Guinness last week delivered a specially brewed keg of stout to be poured the moment Obama walked through the door of Ollie's Bar, which sports a bronze bust and life-size photo cut out of the president. And with that, he declared with eagerness, it was time for a pint. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...