All Blacks or Black and Tans?: Biden confuses rugby team with British paramilitary group – video

Joe Biden appeared to mix up the New Zealand rugby team, the All Blacks, with a former British paramilitary force notorious for its brutality during the second day of his Northern Ireland and Ireland tour. The US president thanked Rob Kearney, a relative who played rugby for Ireland, for the tie he was wearing and then remarked to the press: 'This was given to me by one of these guys, right here. He was a hell of a rugby player. He beat the hell out of the Black and Tans'. Biden made the remark in the Windsor Bar pub in Dundalk before heading south to Dublin where he will meet politicians on Thursday.

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