The Taoiseach Brian Cowen is due to arrive in the US today for the funeral of the late Senator Edward Kennedy, who died on Tuesday after battling a brain tumour.

Senator Ted Kennedy, who died yesterday, will be best remembered in this country as a true friend of Ireland, but he will be remembered in the United States for much more. He was elected to the US Senate in 1962 at a time when the Irish-Americans had finally come out of the political shadows following the election of his brother, John F Kennedy, to the White House in 1960.

Senator Edward Kennedy made the single greatest contribution of any American to helping resolve the North problem, a prominent politician said today.

PRESIDENT John F Kennedy’s sister, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who carried on the family’s public service tradition by founding the Special Olympics and championing the rights of mentally disabled people, died early yesterday surrounded by relatives at a Hyannis hospital. She was 88.

The 88-year-old sister of President John F Kennedy was fighting for her life in hospital today.

America’s first canine got star treatment and his first back-yard romp at the White House – and even presidential clearance to visit the Oval Office.

YOUR mild rebuke (Editorial, March 6) of the Irish State for its failure in not having an honours system in place whereby we could officially acknowledge the contribution made to it by those deemed as worthy recipients is unwarranted.

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.

Veteran politician Edward Kennedy was making a good recovery from surgery on a brain tumour, doctors said today.

Senator Edward Kennedy had surgery to treat a cancerous brain tumour today, and his doctor said the procedure “was successful and accomplished our goals”.

Hillary Clinton apologised after citing the June 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in defending her decision to keep running for the Democratic presidential nomination despite increasingly long odds.

A CANCEROUS brain tumour caused the seizure Senator Edward M Kennedy suffered over the weekend, doctors said on Tuesday in a grim diagnosis for one of the most enduring figures of American politics.

DOCTORS in the US were working yesterday to determine the cause of a seizure that sent Senator Edward Kennedy to the hospital and prompted an outpouring of support for the liberal political icon.

Senator Edward Kennedy, the lone surviving son in a famed political family who helped define national Democratic Party politics, is recovering in hospital today after suffering a seizure.

Senator Edward Kennedy was taken to hospital in the US today after suffering a seizure at his home, his spokeswoman said.

THERE is a contrast between Europe and America but not a contradiction, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern told the joint houses of Congress yesterday.

The Good Friday Agreement set the North on a path to reconciliation and peace 10 years ago, Senator Edward Kennedy said today.

ON ST Patrick’s Day 1977, four prominent Irish-American politicians issued a statement in Washington denouncing the violence in Northern Ireland.

The Taoiseach is due to discuss the issue of illegal Irish immigrants in America with US Senator Ted Kennedy this afternoon.

The visit of Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness to the United States was a wonderful testament to leadership and courage, Senator Edward Kennedy claimed tonight.

Democratic Senator Edward M Kennedy underwent surgery today after doctors discovered a partially blocked artery in his neck during an examination of his back, which was injured in a 1964 plane crash.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern was last night told there could be no special deal for the 50,000 Irish illegals in the US as he used the annual St Patrick’s Day visit to Washington DC to battle to save them from deportation.

Irish-American politicians tonight called on Sinn Féin to endorse policing in Northern Ireland after it turned down policing board seats in the North.

Minister for Foreign Affairs Dermot Ahern is currently on his sixth visit to the United States to meet Irish immigrant groups and lobby American politicians to protect the 25,000 undocumented Irish immigrants.

The McCartney family will head for home today after a whirlwind tour of Washington that saw their campaign to hold the IRA to account make an unprecedented impact.

Mary Dundon, Political Reporter, Washington

A political settlement in Northern Ireland will not help the campaign to bring Robert McCartney’s killers to justice, his family claimed tonight.

MARTIN McGuinness last night challenged Northern Ireland’s top police officer to explain why an IRA suspect in the Robert McCartney murder has not been arrested.

SINN FÉIN last night gave the first sign of irritation with the campaign to find justice for Robert McCartney when Martin McGuinness bluntly warned the family to back off.

Sinn Féin chief Martin McGuinness tonight urged IRA murder victim Robert McCartney’s sisters to stay out of party politics.

A second Sinn Féin election candidate was in the Belfast pub where IRA murder victim Robert McCartney was attacked, it emerged tonight.

Actor-turned-politician Arnold Schwarzenegger’s chances of one day becoming US President received a boost today – with backing from the brother of John F Kennedy.

Bobby Kennedy’s assassin today lost a bid to overturn his conviction an and subsequent life sentence.

THE United States and Britain yesterday embarked on intense international negotiations in a bid to win support for a tough new UN resolution against Iraq.

Moderate nationalists in Northern Ireland must be commended for going on the Police Board despite their concerns, US Senator Edward Kennedy said today.