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| BELFAST, Northern Ireland — President Biden wound down his trip to Ireland on Friday, making stops at places resonant to his Catholic faith and emotional to him as a father. | BELFAST, Northern Ireland — President Biden wound down his trip to Ireland on Friday, making stops at places resonant to his Catholic faith and emotional to him as a father. |
| Thousands of people stood along the River Moy in Ballina on Friday night, for the chance to see Mr. Biden as he visited St. Muredach’s Cathedral on the river’s banks. Mr. Biden’s great-great-great-grandfather, Edward Blewitt, made the bricks that were used to construct the pillars supporting the building’s nave. | Thousands of people stood along the River Moy in Ballina on Friday night, for the chance to see Mr. Biden as he visited St. Muredach’s Cathedral on the river’s banks. Mr. Biden’s great-great-great-grandfather, Edward Blewitt, made the bricks that were used to construct the pillars supporting the building’s nave. |
| The last day of his trip included a stop at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Knock, a sacred shrine for Roman Catholics. He was told by a priest there that a friar who had administered last rites to his eldest son, Beau Biden, who died of brain cancer in 2015, was living in Knock. The president broke down in tears in a subsequent meeting with the friar, Frank O’Grady. | The last day of his trip included a stop at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Knock, a sacred shrine for Roman Catholics. He was told by a priest there that a friar who had administered last rites to his eldest son, Beau Biden, who died of brain cancer in 2015, was living in Knock. The president broke down in tears in a subsequent meeting with the friar, Frank O’Grady. |
| On Wednesday, President Biden hailed 25 years of relative peace in Northern Ireland in a speech at a Belfast university, urging political leaders to embrace economic possibilities and turn away from violence. | On Wednesday, President Biden hailed 25 years of relative peace in Northern Ireland in a speech at a Belfast university, urging political leaders to embrace economic possibilities and turn away from violence. |
| “No matter what divides us, if we look hard enough, there are always areas that are going to bring us together,” Mr. Biden told a small audience at Ulster University in Belfast. “Standing for peace, rejecting political violence must be one of those things.” | |
| The brief stop in Belfast on Wednesday included a short meeting with Rishi Sunak, the British prime minister. On Thursday, he met with the president and prime minister of Ireland. |