Joe Biden confused the All Blacks rugby team with the Black and Tans during his visit to Ireland in the US President’s latest gaffe.

Mr Biden appeared to mix up the New Zealand side with former British soldiers recruited as reinforcement constables during Ireland’s war of independence.

The Black and Tans earned a reputation for violence and carrying out reprisals on Irish civilians and their property.

Mr Biden said, “You see this tie I have with this shamrock on it? This was given to me by one of these guys right here. He was a hell of a rugby player, and he beat the hell out of the Black and Tans Oh, God.”

The US President was in the Windsor pub in Dundalk, where he was paying tribute to his distant cousin Rob Kearney on Wednesday night.

Mr Kearney was a former Irish rugby player and gave Mr Biden the Irish team tie after the side beat the New Zealand rugby team at Soldier Field in Chicago in 2016.

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