Meghan says well-wisher: "Dublin is my favorite city"

A day full of warm encounters with Irish sympathizers, Walter Kieran, a three-year GAA fan, played with Meghan's hair during a visit to Croke Park while another young supporter was pulling Harry's beard.

These playful exchanges at the famous stadium preceded a 25-minute walk in Trinity College Park, where members of the royal family chatted and laughed with enthusiastic crowds.

During the meeting on the paved Trinity Square, Meghan told a fan that Dublin was her favorite city. She visited Dublin for the One Young World conference in 2014, before meeting Harry.

Earlier today, newlyweds followed Harry's grandmother's footsteps on a symbolic visit to Croke Park

. The stadium is steeped in history and has witnessed one of the most infamous incidents of the War of Independence. The soldiers opened fire on a crowd of spectators in 1920, killing 14 people.

Dozens of kids were playing Gaelic football and screaming as the couple watched them Wednesday morning.

They walked hand in hand like GAA The representatives spoke to the couple through the rules of the Gaelic games.

They spoke to young children about their involvement in sport and what it meant for them at Croke Park

. a boost before their crucial World Cup match, stating that football was coming home while he was meeting the Irish president.

A reporter asked him if "football was coming home" – the hymn of the Three Lions hymn, very popular.

Harry and Meghan posed for a photo with President Michael D Higgins and his wife Sabina, Harry laughed "most certainly".

The couple met the president and his wife at Tara an Uachtarain

They rang a Peace Bell installed in the garden in 2008 to mark the 10th anniversary of the Holy Friday peace agreement. and visited the park with the presidential couple and their two Bernese mountain dogs, Brod and Sioda.

Meghan, who with Harry signed the visitor's book at Aras, wore a Roland Mouret dress for the presidential visit. Later, she changed into a black trouser suit

Before going into the crowd at Trinity, the couple received the book of Kells

Warm smiles and cell phone banks greeted the couple on the square. Elizabeth Ring, a 19-year-old law student, said of her conversation with the couple: "Meghan said that Dublin was her favorite city, Harry said that he would come back with his jacket on his head, incognito. "

Emma Boden, 10, gave the couple a handmade card

"Meghan said thank you very much and she said that she loved a card written by hand," she said. "Then she shook my hand, I do not think I'll wash them for a long time."

David Balfany, on vacation in Dublin from the United States, said he'd invited Meghan at a meeting of students at Northwestern University where they were

"She told me that she did not think she could do it," he said.

Pauline Beatty was delighted to have had a hug and a kiss from Harry. "When I asked him to hug me, he said," I can not hug you because I'm going to have to hug everybody. "Then I caught him, he was scarlet."

Two girls wearing T-shirts "When Harry Meets Meghan" were very excited to meet the couple.

"Harry asked me where we had the T-shirts and I told him Asda," said Stephanie Jordan of Belfast. "He asked if they were really selling them there?"

The couple then stopped for a private lunch before continuing the last day of their pre-Brexit charm offensive in Ireland, which happened less than a month after Prince Charles and The Duchess of Cornwall visited the country

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