If I mention the race for the Áras, will you turn the page? You won’t? Many thanks.

“I am in fact a US citizen,”

On February 8, I wrote to the history educational officer and the NCCA history curriculum development unit, regarding Strand 2 Learning Outcome 2.3 of the new Junior Certificate history course.

IT would, perhaps, be too optimistic to suppose that President Donald Trump has ever perused the famous treatise on war written by the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu.

While regarded as historic and celebratory occasions, not all US presidential inaugurations have passed off as the solemn state event desired, as Robert Hume describes.

Sexual allegations are not new in US presidential politics, but Ryle Dwyer notes that Donald Trump has plumbed a new low.

In a new book Larry Tye, former reporter at The Boston Globe, explores Bobby Kennedy's political and personal transformation and asks what lessons it provides for an equally divided modern day America. In this exclusive excerpt, Tye suggests Bobby's metamorphosis mirrored that which the US was undergoing as it moved from the 1950s self-satisfied era of Eisenhower to the tumultuous 1960s.

US Vice President Joe Biden said he was emotional and moved by his visit to Aras an Uachtarain this morning, writes Jack Power of the Irish Examiner.

Cardiff will revert to their traditional blue home kit with immediate effect.

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver's divorce is set to be finalised in December.

Football pundit John Giles and Brother Kevin Crowley of the Capuchin Day Centre are set to receive the Freedom of the City of Dublin.

Just when you thought Miley Cyrus couldn’t get any weirder, her newest collaboration video with ‘The Flaming Lips’ might just trip you out.

PHOTOGRAPHER John Carlos has always had a strong attachment to Ireland’s Western islands.

President Michael D Higgins has received the Freedom of Cork City.

WHEN it comes to the world of eau de toilette, most Irish men — including this one — remain fairly clueless.

THE date most closely associated with the Secret Service isn’t its founding, in 1865. It’s not 1902, when it assumed full-time protection of the president, following William McKinley’s assassination.

THERE was glamorous Jackie, of course. And mother Rose, who nurtured his White House ambitions. And all the others: a movie star, a teenaged intern, a mistress with Mafia ties and more.

JUST about all the people of the United States who were old enough, remember where they were when they heard that John F. Kennedy was shot.

Brian O’Driscoll is to be awarded the Freedom of the City of Dublin early next year.

The Central Bank of Ireland has launched two collector coins to mark the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s visit to Ireland.

Zac Efron and Amber Heard will star in 'Autobahn'.

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.

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Natalie Portman is set to play Jackie Kennedy in a new drama movie.

Charlie Sheen will play the US President in 'Machete Kills'.

I read The Irish Examiner article: “Archbishop: Secularism not all bad for Ireland”.

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.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee used different tactics to confront thugs and killers in war-ravaged Liberia.

FOR all that Bill Clinton might be defined by his marital transgressions, on the political stage he is far from alone: from earliest times, the dark arts have abounded with philanderers.

ANY student of the Kennedy dynasty knows all about the father figure, Joe Kennedy, who shaped and warped the lives of his children through his determination to live vicariously through them and ensure that each should fulfill his ambitions.

Matt Damon is set to star as Robert F. Kennedy in a new movie.

US Senator Edward Kennedy was laid to rest alongside murdered brothers John and Robert on hallowed ground at Arlington National Cemetery, celebrated for “the dream he kept alive” across the decades since their deaths.

President Barack Obama will deliver the eulogy at Senator Edward Kennedy’s funeral, a White House source said, in a tribute to the last political elder of the family that fascinated Americans with its ambition, style, idealism and tragedies for decades.

Two of the astronauts who 40 years ago today first landed on the moon have urged mankind to take a giant leap to Mars.

US presidential hopeful Barack Obama arrived in Berlin today amid high expectations for the European leg of his overseas trip.

After days of hammering at Republican rival John McCain, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama struck a conciliatory note and urged unity in service of a greater good in a speech to college graduates.

John McCain effectively sealed the Republican presidential nomination tonight as chief rival Mitt Romney suspended his faltering campaign.

Karen McCarthy reports from New Hampshire on the fallout from the presidential primary and the likely direction Republican and Democrat candidates will take as the race to the White House gathers pace

McCreevy explained he was objecting to Haughey’s leadership because there had been a lowering of political standards, mishandling of the economy, as well as the party’s failure to secure a majority in two successive general elections.

JIMMY BRESLIN had a problem in November 1963. A young reporter, he was in the middle of the biggest news story of his life — of anyone’s life — but he couldn’t get a handle on it.

THE story of Munster’s march on Europe is familiar to us all. It has been captured through the medium of print, radio, television and most recently three specific books.

Bob Geldof will be awarded the Freedom of Dublin today.