A new Kennedy enters the world of American politics

His great uncle was JFK and his grandfather was the former US Attorney General but Congressman Joseph Patrick III is relying on more than just his name to put emigrant issues on the map. He talks to Robert Mulhern.

HE wasn’t quite sure if he’d end up in politics. His father Joe Kennedy II served in the House of Representatives — he used to say it was all about timing and Joseph junior was never in any rush.

But growing up Joseph Patrick Kennedy III regularly found himself captured by family dinner debates.