If Nancy Pelosi had listened to her mother she might be a nun today — or more likely a Reverend Mother — but instead she set her sights firmly on politics and is now the most powerful woman in American political history.

A Co Cork-born man is spearheading a campaign in America’s third largest state to have the Irish Famine put on its schools’ curriculum.

ARNOLD Schwarzenegger will face ‘real bullets’ in his campaign to become California’s governor as rivals prepare to use allegations of sleaze to undermine his popularity.