US president Joe Biden was nearly called upon as a ball boy during a young girls’ Gaelic games demonstration. Mr Biden stood with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and watched girls from St Brigid’s GAA Club play camogie at Farmleigh House in sunny Dublin on Thursday.
During the demonstration, a sliotar flew past the president, prompting him to quickly turn and almost break into a jog before a young girl ran past him to collect it.
Mr Biden turned back to face the pitch and smiled as the game continued. The president put his arm round the Taoiseach as they watched the demonstration, before going over to speak to the children.
The girls asked Mr Biden questions before he posed for photos with the camogie teams and boys from Castleknock GAA Club and St Oliver Plunkett Eoghan Ruadh GAA Club, who were playing Gaelic football.