It was a real family affair at University of Limerick as the new Vice President for Research was part of the processing party to confer her own parents with a Certificate in Local History.

The US has sold itself as the ‘land of opportunity,’ where a hotel bellboy can, by dint of hard graft, become the proprietor of the business.

Twin choreographers Megan and Jessica Kennedy explore the innermost fears of Cork people for their ambitious dance opera, writes Ellie O’Byrne

So that’s nearly Saturday wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

Robert F Kennedy Jr is an ‘outlier in the Kennedy family’ with his anti-vaxx support, according to his siblings. Now the family is engaged in a very public spat, says Bette Browne

The two drivers who died in the fatal road smash which claimed three lives in west Limerick on Thursday evening were both retired nurses, it has emerged.

"In a personal message to Dot at the end of the recording, he asks her to return to the United States to help with the election campaign"

He is a few days down the track but Paddy Kennedy is still floating on air after guiding Magic Of Light to finish second in Aintree Grand National, on his first ever ride at the track.

Members of the US political dynasty the Kennedys are to visit Ireland to open an exhibition about the late Dot Tubridy, who was a family friend.

Sean Carey was the toast of Moyle Rovers as his injury-time goal knocked arch-rivals and holders Clonmel Commercials out of the county senior football championship in a thrilling semi-final at Cahir — Rovers won 2-7 to 0-11.

Shortly after Roman Abramovich bought the Château de la Croë property about a decade ago on the exclusive Cap d’Antibes peninsula in the south of France, the taxman came knocking.

Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime.

Ballyboden St Endas were made to bend low to secure a first All-Ireland final spot that looked beyond them for so much of the second half of normal time.

Members of the famous Kennedy family, here for the launch of the annual Kennedy Summer School programme in Wexford, have taken time out to visit some top tourist attractions in the south-west.

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.

A 172-year-old college at the centre of controversy over the sale of secret letters penned by Jacqueline Kennedy is to shut down.

Secret letters from Jacqueline Kennedy to an Irish priest have been pulled from a controversial auction sale.

Secret letters from Jacqueline Kennedy to an Irish priest have been pulled from a controversial auction sale.

Wide Open Opera’s ‘Nixon in China’ commemorates the late American president’s meeting with Mao Zedong in 1972, writes Alan O’Riordan.

ACTOR Aidan Gillen played John Boy in the RTÉ crime series, Love/Hate, and will be back on our screens as Charlie Haughey, in Charlie, later this year. Gillen has selected seven of his favourite films for showings at Triskel Christchurch from Jan 17-20.

Cliff Robertson, PT 109, 1963.

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.

THE last of JFK’s Irish cousins has recalled the devastating day news of his assassination reached the rural homestead where the Kennedy story began.

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

RECENTLY, I was fortunate to attend and speak at the annual Kennedy Summer School in New Ross, Co Wexford. Attendees had two things in common: A fascination with the closest thing Ireland and Irish America have to a royal family, and a belief in the potential of democratic politics.

The country’s ongoing fascination with the Kennedys shows no signs of abating and this weekend, two more scions of the most famous of all Irish-American families are in Ireland for this year’s Kennedy Summer School.

Dance: Junk Ensemble: Dusk Ahead, Watergate Theatre, Kilkenny

JFK had pledged to come back the following spring — half a century later his family brought a touch of Camelot home again.

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

Dozens of descendants from the world’s most famous political dynasty gathered today at a farmhouse in Ireland to mark the day John F Kennedy came back to his ancestral home.

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

A real life “guardian angel” from the “Gate of Heaven” saved Jacqueline Kennedy from drowning when she holidayed in Co Waterford in 1967.

Kennedy always got close to Irish crowds, writes Ray Ryan

Without wanting to cast a shadow on the very worthy JFK visit commemoration, it’s worth remembering that barrel maker Patrick Kennedy’s voyage to the United States took place a mere 10 years after the holocaust of the Great Famine.

White House planners did not include Cork in the first draft itinerary they prepared for President Kennedy’s visit to Ireland.

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.

TWO of Ireland’s ancient clans — the FitzGeralds and the Kennedys — gave to the world the 35th president of the US, John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

An Post has taken a trip down memory lane and issued two stamps to mark the 50th anniversary of US president John F Kennedy’s visit to Ireland.

Two new stamps marking the 50th anniversary of President John F Kennedy’s historic visit to Ireland have been printed.

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.