{"id":88003,"date":"2026-06-14T15:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T15:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/88003\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T15:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T15:22:15","slug":"canadas-carney-charmed-by-irish-county-filled-with-dozens-of-cousins-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/88003\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s Carney charmed by Irish county filled with dozens of cousins \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

An emotional high point came in the nearby crossroads village of Aghagower, where Carney\u2019s paternal grandparents, Robert Carney<\/a> and Nora Moran, grew up on adjoining farms on the lands of Lord Sligo before emigrating together to Canada in 1925.<\/p>\n

Waiting to meet Carney outside St. Patrick\u2019s Church in Aghagower were dozens of cousins and hundreds of people from the surrounding community, including at least one impressively articulate local boy<\/a>, as well as Ireland\u2019s prime minister, Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin.<\/p>\n

Carney tried to shake everyone\u2019s hands, all the while noting that Mass was supposed to start at 11:30 a.m.<\/p>\n

\"\"Mark Carney, Canada Prime Minister, is greeted by Minister Dara Calleary in Ireland West airport. | Government of Ireland<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to hold up the service,\u201d he said at one point before stopping to take a picture with 17-month-old Malachy Morgan, who had arrived with his Irish-Canadian mother donning a Montreal Canadiens jersey and nibbling on a toy hockey stick. Carney told them, in French, how pleased he was to see the jersey, \u201cparticularly in the west of Ireland.\u201d<\/p>\n

Inside the church where his grandparents were baptized, Carney sat in the front pew beside his nearest relatives living in Ireland, Pat Carney and Maureen O\u2019Malley, who are first cousins of his late father, Robert Jr.<\/p>\n

After Mass, Carney popped into Aghagower\u2019s only shop<\/a>, which does triple duty as the village\u2019s post office and pub, and toured a cemetery beside the church bearing a 10th-century round tower<\/a> and more than a few headstones with the Carney name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An emotional high point came in the nearby crossroads village of Aghagower, where Carney\u2019s paternal grandparents, Robert Carney…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31177,17,28095,33730,2807,33521,33731,111,395,511],"class_list":["post-88003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-micheal-martin","tag-canada","tag-catholic","tag-farms","tag-ireland","tag-irish-politics","tag-jersey","tag-mark-carney","tag-services","tag-transatlantic-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}