About 5,000 people including Japan's prime minister and the US ambassador to Japan held a memorial service today to mark the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Okinawa, one of the bloodiest conflicts of the Second World War.

RTÉ broadcaster Tom McGurk and his wife, PR guru Caroline Kennedy, want to prevent a building firm’s residential development on a former hospital site near their home in Dublin 4.

An expert on rare books has consented to permanent orders restraining him representing himself as the owner or seller of letters sent by former US first lady Jackie Kennedy to an Irish priest, or passing on any copies or extracts from them to third parties.

The death of the Duchess of Cornwall’s brother Mark Shand, who fell and banged his head outside a New York hotel bar, has been ruled an accident.

John F Kennedy was remembered as a transcendent leader of a rising nation at a ceremony in Dallas last night, the 50th anniversary of his assassination.

Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of JFK, began her role on November 18 as US Ambassador to Japan. Kennedy starts her high profile job just days before the 50th anniversary of the assassination of her father.

LOUISE Kennedy’s clothes are never off the fashion pages, but it’s difficult to believe she’s been designing for 30 years.

The Taoiseach Enda Kenny has joined John F Kennedy's daughter in lighting the 'Emigrants' Flame' in New Ross, County Wexford this evening.

Caroline Kennedy, daughter of the late US Presient John F Kennedy, visited Wexford this evening to light the "Emigrants' Flame" in tribute to all those who have left the country.

Bruff emerged in brilliant sunshine yesterday to stake its rightful place in the heritage of the Kennedy clan.

Caroline Kennedy was just 5 when her father kissed her goodbye and left the US for his visit to Ireland, but she has made that journey in her imagination many times since.

A flame taken from the eternal one on US president John F Kennedy’s grave has arrived in Ireland as part of events to mark 50 years since his visit.

As Ireland said farewell to the Obamas, a Co Limerick town was yesterday making final preparations to welcome the Kennedy clan.

John F Kennedy’s daughter Caroline is set to visit the sites of the Fitzgerald family homesteads in Co Limerick, where fresh research shows JFK’s great grandfather and great grandmother grew up as neighbouring first cousins.

Over 160 years after Patrick Kennedy left Ireland to seek a new life across the Atlantic, his namesake and descendant was back in the ‘old country’ yesterday morning to launch one of the highlights of The Gathering schedule.

Neil Diamond is donating some of this week’s sales from Sweet Caroline to Boston Marathon blast victims after the tune became a source of comfort following the bomb attack.

Dancer and musician Michael Flatley, author Colm Tóibín, and tenor Michael Londra have been confirmed as part of Irish celebrations to mark the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s visit.

Technology specialists behind the London 2012 Olympic Torch have arrived in New Ross to work on the newly built Emigrant Flame, which will be lit by members of the Kennedy family and the Taoiseach this summer.

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.

Irish Thoroughbred Marketing’s former chief is making a fresh start after his wife’s deals saw him resign, writes investigative correspondent Conor Ryan

Katie Holmes has enrolled her six-year-old daughter into the same Catholic school Lady Gaga once attended.

Horse Racing Ireland has announced a significant restructuring of its marketing subsidiary in the wake of the resignation of a senior director over breach of ethics concerns.

Meryl Streep may have her next film assignment and Neil Diamond thanked the namesake of his famous tune 'Sweet Caroline' as they joined other luminaries from Broadway, jazz and classical music to receive the Kennedy Centre Honours.

THE Dublin coroner has recommended that emergency services in the south-east be reviewed to ensure ambulances are properly directed to patients’ homes.

CAROLINE Kennedy says her daughters were “horrified” by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’ old-fashioned view of the role of women in interviews released this week.

ABC News last night said there is no truth to a report that Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis believed then US vice-president Lyndon Johnson was involved in the assassination of her husband, President John F Kennedy.

Secret interviews with President John F Kennedy’s wife claim he ominously warned his assassination would protect his legacy about a year before his death.

A National Employability Forum takes place today which aims to help graduates on the road to employment.

Tom Waits went for laughs, Alice Cooper for shock value, Leon Russell was quietly humble and Neil Diamond may still be talking following their induction last night into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

THE last time Ginger Romano saw Ted Kennedy, she wasn’t at her best.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver was celebrated by family members as a passionate humanitarian and a pious woman devoid of vanity, hours after thousands of mourners flocked to a church to pay their respects to the founder of the Special Olympics.

The decision by the daughter of murdered US president John F Kennedy to abandon her bid for a US Senate seat sparked an ugly swirl of accusations today and feverish speculation over whether she jumped or was pushed.

CAROLINE KENNEDY withdrew her senate bid because of a personal matter unrelated to her ill uncle, rejecting the governor’s attempt to get her to reconsider, a person who worked closely with her said yesterday.

The daughter of assassinated president John Kennedy confirmed today she has abandoned her bid for New York’s Senate seat.

US senator Ted Kennedy was said to be doing well today after he was released from the hospital following his seizure at Barack Obama’s inaugural lunch event.

THE Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted overwhelmingly yesterday for Hillary Clinton to become the next secretary of state, with lawmakers saying they were hopeful her leadership would mark a turn from warfare toward diplomacy.

Caroline Kennedy identified Barack Obama as a quantum shift in political potential.

Caroline Kennedy is interested in the Senate seat that would open once Hillary Clinton becomes US Secretary of State, according to a close relative who says the powerful Kennedy clan is fully behind her rising to the office previously held by her uncle.

TEARS, tantrums, treason and a dramatic walkout all featured in the second last day of meetings for the Dáil committee charged with finding a solution to the Lisbon treaty dilemma.

Democratic US presidential candidate Barack Obama said today he “desperately needed” the Clintons in his campaign.

Former Senators John Edwards and Sam Nunn are on a list of potential running mates for US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, according to a congresswoman.

Hillary Clinton was set formally to end her historic bid for the White House today and urge her supporters to rally behind rival Barack Obama, a show of support Democrats hope will help heal the party fractured by a bitter battle for the presidential nomination.

The presidential hopes of Hillary Clinton will be officially over tomorrow, but her future still remains unclear.

Barack Obama won the support of some of the biggest backers of his former rival Hillary Clinton today as she finally signalled that the end of her bid for the Democratic nomination was near.