DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's national sports - Gaelic football and hurling - won an unlikely new audience when pictures of China's leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping kicking a football were beamed to Beijing from Ireland, the only European stop on his current world tour.
Xi, whose trip began in the United States last week, arrived in Dublin Sunday from the west of Ireland, where he toured a dairy farm and the picturesque Cliffs of Moher.
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