Well, it's been a big week for the Bluets in Balana and the Queens in Kuli.

Their cousin has just become America's president-elect and assuming Donald Trump has moved out,

he'll be taking up residence in the White House on January the 20th.

Joe Biden's Irish ancestry is well-known, of course, and it's been much commented on in recent days.

But how will it shape his worldview when

he's finally got his feet under the table in the Oval Office? Will his Irishness actually influence

the day-to-day running of his administration, or will it end up being a card he plays once a year

in and around March the 17th? Fintin. Well, I would say it's neither of those things.

So it's not going to influence the day-to-day running of the administration, certainly.

But it is much more than something that he's just going to his wheel out on St. Patrick's Day.

It's been an absolutely consistent part of his self-identification throughout his public life.

I mean, really going back to the

1960s, it goes back to the Kennedys. That's really where it comes from. It's a chosen identity.

You know, his Irish roots are pretty distant, and he has as many roots in England and in France

as he has in Ireland. But that almost makes it more important to him. This is the way he chooses

to identify himself. And of course, if it comes into an arena of conflict, where, you know,

in relation to Brexit, in relation to trade deals, if Irish interests are being undermined,

I do think that matters to Biden in a very serious way.

Norman? Yes, well, I don't think his Irishness is going to define his presidency. I mean,

as I don't think his Catholicism has been only the second president of the United States to be Catholic.

I would say just a couple of things about that. I mean,

he is very, very proud of his Irish roots coming from Scranton and Pennsylvania, a very blue-collar,

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