A former US presidential election candidate has set up a petition calling on Taoiseach Enda Kenny to boycott the traditional White House St Patrick’s Day meeting with Donald Trump.

Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald and Garda Commissioner Noirín O’Sullivan will be joined by one-time US presidential hopeful Martin O’Malley and Bernie Sanders strategist Tadd Devine on a heavy-hitting schedule for this year’s Kennedy Summer School.

New Hampshire the next stop for candidates seeking delegates’ votes

Hillary Clinton pushed to show she can be popular with younger voters after students told her they failed to connect with her.

In their final debate before the Iowa caucuses, the gloves came off between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.

Democrat and Republican US presidential contenders Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are constantly sniping at one another and benefitting as a result, says Bette Browne  

Hillary Clinton has called for a new era of shared prosperity in America and told thousands of supporters at a presidential campaign rally that workers can trust her to fight for them.

Hillary Clinton is taking another stab at cracking what she calls “the highest and hardest glass ceiling”.

Former secretary of state to make second bid for White House

AS HILLARY CLINTON celebrates the birth of her grandchild and edges closer to deciding on a US presidential bid, an Irish-American governor could be getting ready to rain on her parade.

The people behind an event to commemorate the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s visit to Ireland said they are “cautiously optimistic” that president Barack Obama will take part in the celebrations in Wexford this June.

Bill Clinton will attempt today to drum up business for Ireland at a special investment conference in New York being attended by the Taoiseach, Tánaiste and Enterprise Minister.

The country’s longest serving garda would love to see the force return to closer contact with the community.

IT wasn’t the man he had travelled across the Atlantic to see. But when Taoiseach Enda Kenny yesterday found himself in the same Washington Hotel lobby as Duke Special he would have been forgiven for asking the Belfast songwriter for a rendition of his hit I Never Thought This Day Would Come.

The North’s First and Deputy First Ministers were in the United States today urging corporate America that the province is a good place for them to invest despite the global downturn.

IT IS politics but like nothing witnessed before.

Four people are believed to have died when a water taxi with 25 people aboard capsized in the US city of Baltimore’s Inner Harbour after a violent gust of wind struck the boat.