During an appearance on Who Do You Think You Are?, a BBC programme in which celebrities discover their family history, McGuinness visited Ireland and said he felt 'a connection' to the country.
TV presenter Paddy McGuinness has discovered he has Irish ancestors who were neighbours with a forebearer of US President Joe Biden.
On the show the TV star from Lancashire learned that his great-grandmother, Bridget McGuinness, had been baptised in a parish in County Mayo to parents Mark McGuinness and Winifred Molloy, who lived near Biden's ancestor Edward Blewitt in Ballina. At the end of the programme, McGuinness, while stood on a beach, said: "I do feel a real spiritual connection, even on this beach today, it's absolutely beautiful here on the west coast of Ireland they could have been playing on here as kids walking up and down here, who knows.
"I think the biggest highlight for me was actually seeing my granddad's war medal. That for me was a real moment where I felt like I was holding a piece of history in my hand. My dad would have loved to find more out about our Irish ancestors, and it had been nice to bring him out to Ballina and what have you, but I'll have a pint of the black stuff for him."
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