article_snippet: The vice president made a joke about sectarianism and got her name wrong .
article_snippet: After a brief pause, Vice president Joe Biden declared: 'Only joking.'
article_snippet: The Vice Pesident made no further reference to The Vice Pesident blurted-out bad joke, but at one point in The Vice Pesident breakfast remarks appeared to refer to the Taoiseach's wife as 'Fiona', although Vice president Joe Biden subsequently corrected it to Fionnuala.
article_snippet: Asked about the request for an apology, an official in Joe Biden's's office said Joe Biden's had made clear that an official in Biden's office was joking.
article_snippet: Joe Biden's made another minor blunder later when Joe Biden's read a quote from a Yeats poem
article_snippet: Joe Biden's described as 'Easter Sunday 1916', when the word Sunday is not in the title.
article_snippet: Mr Biden also revealed that Mr Biden had a stammer as a child. '
article_snippet: Mr Biden has a long list of previous gaffes
article_snippet: Mr Biden once asked a wheelchair-bound local politician to stand up and acknowledge the crowd's applause, and after being chosen as Vice President Mr Biden even suggested that Hillary Clinton would have been a better choice.
article_snippet: Most recently Mr Biden was widely ridiculed for putting Mr Biden hands on the shoulders of Stephanie Carter, wife of defense secretary Ash Carter, and whispering in her ear as her husband was sworn in.
article_snippet: Mr Biden also told the father of a teenage girl
highlights_snippet: Also got name of Irish prime minister's wife wrong and mis-named the title of a Yeats poem he selected for the occasion .