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Gawker (Pareene), Monday, citing an Irish Central story:
Also here is some of that trademark Dowd wit:
She was intrigued that Obama’s Irish ancestors hail from a town called Moneygall in Co. Offaly. Immediately she began, as she always does, playing around with the word.
“That’s what this crisis is all about,” she said. “Money and the gall of people and how they treated it.”
So look for that line in a column.
MoDo, today:
On St. Patrick’s Day, the president spoke a bit of Gaelic, dyed the White House fountains green and talked about his distant relatives in the tiny Irish town of Moneygall, aptly named since money and gall are the two topics now consuming him.
