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A month on and Ballina is still buzzing and proud following the visit of President Biden to the north Mayo town as people can now reflect and enjoy video footage of the event going global, while looking forward to an ongoing busy calendar of events as the Ballina 300th year-long anniversary continues right throughout 2023.

It has been confirmed that the President of the United States of America, Joe Biden, will pay an official visit to Ireland next week at the invitation of the Taoiseach. The visit will take place from April 12 to 15, during which, President Biden is to travel to Ballina, where he is scheduled to deliver a homecoming speech outside St Muredach's Cathedral on Friday evening, April 14.

The monthly meeting of the Ballina Municipal District which was held online this month, had a call in from both the Mayor and City Council President from Scranton, Pennsylvania - the home town of the new President of the United States, Joe Biden, on the morning before he was sworn in as the 46th President of the USA.

The elected members of Mayo County Council have congratulated US President-elect Joe Biden on his victory in last week's US Presidential election.

I am sure you are all square-eyed, as I am, from looking at TV for the last five or six days. Can you believe it? The American election was last Tuesday, and I am writing this column on the Tuesday of the following week, and still President Trump is shouting that the vote was stolen from him and that he is the true President.

The President of Ireland, Michael D Higgins, was among the first to congratulate American President-elect Joe Biden on his success.

The collective sighs of relief and whoops of joy were audible throughout the free-thinking world. Democrat Joe Biden eclipsed incumbent Donald Trump at the polls to become the 46th president of the United States, and also the 23rd to have Irish roots.

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Reports from the United States this week have suggested that United States vice president Joe Biden will be making a trip to Ireland later this summer with Mayo one of his destinations. The Irish Central news website, has reported that the vice president will be making a four day trip to Ireland with a visit to Mayo penciled in on this trip.

US President Barack Obama has confirmed to Taoiseach Enda Kenny, at a St Patrick’s Day reception in the White House, that he is to visit Ireland in May and it is hoped that he will come west as part of that trip. Former US President John F Kennedy visited Galway during his reign in office in 1963 and Galway City councillor Padraig Conneely extended the same invitation to President Obama during a visit to the US in 2009.