Natalie Portman tells Helen Barlow about her Oscar-tipped role as Jackie Kennedy in the days after JFK was killed.

After a turbulent start to the year in financial markets, packed with fear- inducing headlines, it is little surprise that people might feel nervous about what lies ahead. 

The stakes were high at the Cuban military airfield in San Antonio de los Baños, some 20 miles south west of Havana, two days before Christmas in 1962.

David Lyttle from Co Down was the first ever Irish musician to be nominated for a Music of Black Origin Award (MOBO). The awards take place next Wednesday and will be broadcast on ITV2. Lyttle was nominated in the best jazz act on the back of his Faces album, which features collaborations with the likes of Talib Kweli and Duke Special.

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 special Secret Service mission ordered by John F Kennedy involved a search for a precious heirloom from the old family homestead in Bruff, it was recalled yesterday in the Co Limerick town.

The last of the Irish cousins of the famous Kennedy dynasty gathered at their ancestral homestead to remember John F Kennedy yesterday.

TELEVISION was central in the American home after President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, a national trauma that unfolded in real time and was suited to the emerging medium.

As mourners filed past the coffin of the slain John F Kennedy in the US capital, 140 miles away the Washington Redskins kicked off against the Philadelphia Eagles.

Live music: Depeche Mode

ARTISTIC director of the New Ross Piano Festival, pianist Finghin Collins, has put together a bold Russian-themed programme for the festival’s eighth edition. Having secured President Michael D Higgins as the festival patron, and taking place amid celebrations of the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s visit, it’s an auspicious year for the festival.

Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers in Dublin has something for everyone next Tuesday — but particularly for the collector of historic items and documents.

THE past is a foreign country.

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.

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

The first person to introduce John Fitzgerald Kennedy in public as “the next President of the United States” was from Kanturk, Co Cork.

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.

APPLE always seemed like the perfect company.

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.

The corporate push to pay ever lower amounts in taxes and wages has reached a tipping point and the backlash could ultimately harm the businesses themselves, writes Daniel Gross.

The public is being urged to take a trip down memory lane to mark the 50th anniversary of US president John F Kennedy’s visit to Ireland.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has laid a wreath at the memorial to those killed or injured in the Boston Marathon bombing.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny will receive an honorary doctorate at Boston College next Monday.

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.

Don’t get too paranoid about becoming the butt of jokes on April 1— you’re in good company, says Caroline Delaney

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.

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

Rather than the scrapping of Transition Year to become a year of community service, as proposed by Friends of the Elderly, perhaps the smarter option would be to increase the number of community service hours for each Transition Year student.

MOST little girls go through a phase of clip-clopping around in Mummy’s high heels, bedecked in her jewellery and posing for all they’re worth.

Instead of reviving the original show, director Marian Wyatt chose to make an even more ambitious play, says Colette Sheridan

Miss Shirley Bassey

WHILE JFK’s 1,000 days in office were dubbed Camelot, the Fianna Fáil/Green coalition’s 1,000 days in power could be more aptly summed-up as Slumpalot.

WE WON’T start with the garlic.

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

Senator Edward Kennedy’s body was taken on the first leg of its final journey, first past landmark after landmark bearing his family’s famous name and then to his murdered brother’s presidential library where mourners lined up by the thousands to bid farewell to him.

WHEN 86-year-old Rosemary Kennedy, sister of President John F Kennedy, died in January 2005, the New York Times ran a story saying she had been born mentally disabled.

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.

Former US Defence Secretary Robert McNamara - who was vilified for prosecuting the Vietnam War - died at home in Washington today aged 93.