A Different View with Dave O’Connell

Barack Obama flew into Dublin last week to accept the Freedom of the City – something that was so important to him that he’d waited since 2017 to pick it up.

Still, better late than never – and while this wasn’t exactly crowds converging on College Green to greet him as in days of yore, he was back so that the city of Dublin could pay him what, over its long history, is sufficiently rare that he was joining an exclusive club of around 200 fellow Freemen and Women.

Except the former President of the United States didn’t specifically come to Ireland to collect the........

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