Word: ballyporeen
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...small crowd allowed through security lines in Reagan's ancestral Ballyporeen was thoroughly infiltrated by security agents, both men and women dressed as camera-toting tourists. In the Ronald Reagan Lounge, John O'Farrell, an entrepreneurial genius, proprietor of O'Farrell's Pub, posed with his family as cast. They were positioned and tutored for pictures, including four-week-old Catherine Nancy O'Farrell, named for Mrs. Reagan. It was duly reported that a man in a cloth cap was ushered in as "a solitary rep-representative of the plain people of Ballyporeen...
...helped to produce the President's protective script. The "ring around Reagan" of at least 5,000 marching Dubliners condemning Reagan's foreign policy played to television cameras. The Catholic prelates who snubbed Reagan in Ireland sought headlines, not answers. The 1,800 journalists who descended on Ballyporeen outnumbered the village's entire population more than...
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