{"id":572575,"date":"2026-07-28T19:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/572575\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T19:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:29:12","slug":"american-president-announces-return-to-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/572575\/","title":{"rendered":"American President announces return to Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former American President Barack Obama is set to return to Ireland later this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The father-of-two will appear at a live interview show in Belfast this October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 64-year-old, who became the first black president of the <a href=\"https:\/\/extra.ie\/2026\/06\/14\/news\/american-singer-helicopter-crash\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">United States<\/a> in 2009, will take An Evening With President Barack Obama to Belfast, Glasgow and Manchester, following shows at the 3Arena in Dublin last year and the O2 in London.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"650\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-93547759.jpg\" alt=\"Michelle and Barack Obama look at each other smiling\" class=\"wp-image-1347711\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 44th US president will appear at The O2 in Belfast on 13 October, Glasgow&#8217;s Ovo Hydro on 14 October and Manchester\u2019s Co-op Live on 15 October, with guest moderators to be announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Organisers said Mr <a href=\"https:\/\/evoke.ie\/2026\/06\/19\/entertainment\/obama-family-style\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Obama<\/a> will speak about &#8216;what comes next for America, and for all of us&#8217; in the live interview format.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Obama previously came to Dublin&#8217;s 3Arena last September where he was interviewed by \u00a0journalist Fintan O&#8217;Toole.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-90534180.jpg\" alt=\"Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Pic: Jason Reed-Pool\/Getty Images\" class=\"wp-image-2003200\"  \/>Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Pic:  Jason Reed-Pool\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His visit was his first trip to Ireland since 2011 when he gave a speech at\u00a0Dublin\u2019s College Green\u00a0and travelled to\u00a0Moneygall in Co Offaly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Obama was greeted by over 5,000 people when he visited Moneygall in Co Offaly, his Irish ancestral home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A motorway service area in Moneygall was named the Barack Obama Plaza in his honour in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former American President Barack Obama is set to return to Ireland later this year. The father-of-two will appear&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-572575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}