See: Joe Biden blundered while visiting a pub

The President of the United States was at the Windsor Pub in Dundalk paying tribute to his distant cousin Rob Kearney on Wednesday night

Kearney gave Biden a draw with the Irish team after the team beat New Zealand at Soldier Field in Chicago in 2016.

The gaffe came just hours after Biden delivered a speech in Belfast calling for a restoration of power sharing in Stormont. .

From Northern Ireland, he traveled to Dublin, where he met with Leo Varadkar, Prime Minister of Ireland, before traveling to County Louth.

Biden's maternal great-great-grandfather Owen Finnegan came from County Louth. , but fled famine-ravaged Ireland to go to the United States.

The non-drinking president, who is fiercely proud of his Irish roots, told people at the Windsor Pub that he also has English ancestry.

But he added that his father's saving grace was that that a quarter of his family came from Galway.

“It… it helped. You know, Biden is English. I hate to tell you this. I don't hate — I'm joking, but it's true,» he said.

When asked if it was good for him to be in the house of his ancestors, he said: “It's wonderful. It feels like I'm coming home.»

But he warned those at the pub that the «bad news» was that he would be back.

Mr. Biden will spend Thursday in Dublin.

He will meet with the President and Prime Minister of Ireland before delivering a speech to a joint meeting of both houses of the Irish Parliament and attending a banquet at Dublin Castle.

The White House said on Thursday that it was clear that Mr. Biden was referring to the All Blacks.

Senior director of the National Security Council for Europe Amanda Sloat said: “It was clear what the president was talking about, it is certainly clear to his cousins to the brothers sitting next to him."