Podcaster Laurita Blewitt revealed she and her now husband GAA legend pundit Joe Brolly personally invited her cousin US president Joe Biden to their wedding - but he had to decline.
The Mayo native, who married barrister Brolly in an intimate ceremony at the Ice House Hotel in Ballina last month, says it may have been for the best in hindsight - admitting it would have been ‘a nightmare’ trying to organise security if he did come for the big day.
She told the Irish Daily Mirror: “Well if the president of America was at the wedding it would have been a quiet one with security and secret service and all of that. It would have been a nightmare.