Joe Biden breaks down as he meets priest who gave his son the last rites
by Lisa O'Carroll and Rory Carroll from US news | The Guardian on (#6ATA2)
US president, whose son Beau Biden died of brain cancer in 2015, tearful after chance meeting with Fr Frank O'Grady in Co Mayo
Joe Biden broke down in tears on the final day of his four-day trip to Ireland after a chance meeting with the priest who gave his son Beau the last rites before he died in 2015.
Fr Richard Gibbons, parish priest and rector of Knock Shrine, said Fr Frank O'Grady - the chaplain who was by Beau Biden's side as he died - had moved to Knock to work there, leading to an unplanned meeting with the president.
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