Obama in Ireland
President Barack Obama raised a pint of Guinness and met the locals Monday in Moneygall, the village in Ireland where his great-great-great-grandfather lived before moving to the US in the 1850s. Anchor Lisa Mullins gets details from Irish Independent reporter Eimear Ni Bhraonain.
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