US president, whose son Beau Biden died of brain cancer in 2015, tearful after chance meeting with Fr Frank O’Grady in Co Mayo
Joe Biden broke down in tears on the final day of his four-day trip to Ireland after a chance meeting with the priest who gave his son Beau the last rites before he died in 2015.
“Just extraordinary, and I didn’t even know that, I didn’t know that until the president arrived. He laughed, he cried, it just kind of hit the man, you could just [see] how deeply it all felt and meant to him. He told RTE that he was surprised to be called because he knew it was a private visit and only a select number of people were allowed into the basilica.
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