Obama visits his ancestral home in Ireland

2012-05-30 4

Barack Obama, the US president, and his wife Michelle, experienced a warm welcome in Ireland - where some of Obama's distant ancestors lived.

As well as meeting the Irish prime minister, Obama made a visit to the small town of Moneygall where the president's great, great grandfather lived.

Al Jazeera's Andrew Simmons reports from the Irish capital, Dublin.