VP Joe Biden reflects on meeting his Mayo family

US Vice-President Joe Biden has shared his reflections on his first visit 'home' to Mayo on social media.

On his Facebook page, Mr. Biden wrote: 'Over the course of my life, I've been a lot of places. I've been honored to have held a lot of titles. But I've never forgotten that I'm the son of Kitty Finnegan. The grandson of Geraldine Finnegan. The great-grandson of a man named Edward Francis Blewitt, whose roots stem from Ballina, a small town in Ireland's County Mayo.

'And last week, as we returned to County Mayo, the Biden family grew a bit bigger.

'My children, grandchildren and I had the incredible opportunity to meet more than a dozen members of the Blewitt family - our distant cousins from County Mayo - for the very first time. Some of the most lovely, genuine people you could ever meet. We sat down together for lunch, and it was if we'd been eating Sunday dinner with one another for the past 25 years.

'I was reminded of the quintessentially American notion that home is where your character is etched. And how, as Americans, we hail from many homes.

'Somewhere along the line, someone in our lineage arrived on these shores, filled with hope. We are blessed to experience that simultaneous pride in where we've found ourselves, while never forgetting our roots.'

Click through below to hear what Mr. Biden had to say.