PLEASE allow me to put into correct order the use of the George Bernard Shaw quote by the three Kennedy brothers as commented on by Ryan Tubridy and your columnist Ryle Dwyer (October 27).

A new Centre for Conflict Intervention is to be set up at NUI Maynooth to honour the late Senator Ted Kennedy.

Senator Ted Kennedy and his sister, former US ambassador to Ireland Jean Kennedy Smith, were recognised today with the Tipperary International Peace Award for their support for the Northern Ireland peace process.

US president Barack Obama today sought to assure Democrats he would not abandon his commitment to overhauling health care and would work to counter Republican challenges to his party’s congressional dominance.

Mark Durkan steps down as the leader of the SDLP today after a decade at the helm.

US Senate Democrats won a crucial vote on President Barack Obama’s healthcare plan, putting them on track for passage before Christmas of the historic legislation to overhaul the medical system and cover 30 million uninsured Americans.

HOW easy it is for columnists like Steven King (September 2) to render a harsh judgement on the likes of Senator Ted Kennedy while their own personal stuff isn’t on the front pages. Cute.

When Jean came in to my office in Iveagh House she was taken aback and moved to see my photo of her brothers. On leaving Ireland after her term as ambassador she kindly gave me a gift of one of her own photos of the three brothers at home.

IT was a tale of two BOs — Barack Obama, President of America, and Bo, the newest addition to his family, a loveable curly-haired pooch.

Senator Ted Kennedy collapsed during the inaugural lunch for President Barack Obama today.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern has raised the prospect of Irish troops serving many years in war-torn Chad.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern will join an elite band of international statesmen today with a historical address to a Joint Session of the US Congress.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern tonight left for the United States as he prepares for one of his last and most prestigious official engagements.

NIALL O’DOWD, when ‘reporting’ Hillary Clinton’s victory in the Massachusetts Democratic primary (February 10), grossly exaggerated the weight of it.

HILLARY CLINTON and Barack Obama split the Democratic Party delegates yesterday as John McCain declared himself the front-runner in the Republican race after the biggest Super Tuesday in history.

Hillary Clinton edged ahead of Barack Obama today in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination as results from the Super Tuesday elections came in.

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama appeared to be splitting the Democratic vote today as the first results from the Super Tuesday elections came in.

Barack Obama will win Georgia in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, CNN predicted today.

Mike Huckabee won West Virginia today in the first results of Super Tuesday in the race for the White House.

Millions of Americans in more than 20 states headed to the polls today as record turn-outs were expected in one of the most significant days of the presidential campaign so far.

A Dublin pub will be turned into an impromptu voting centre this week when US Democrats living in Ireland ballot for the party’s Presidential nominee.

The Irish American newspaper 'Irish Voice' endorsed Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton today, saying no other candidate matches her “sterling record” on Irish issues.

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

A tearful Irish emigrant in the US had to listen to his father’s funeral Mass on a mobile phone because he was unable to travel home to attend it, it was claimed today.

Minister for Foreign Affairs Dermot Ahern insisted efforts to secure citizenship for thousands of illegal Irish in America will continue despite it failing for a second time.

FOREIGN Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern yesterday welcomed a new bill to radically reform strict US immigration laws giving hope to 50,000 illegal Irish.

The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, has said he believes good progress is being made on US moves to regularise the status of illegal immigrants, including tens of thousands of Irish citizens.

LABOUR Party president, Michael D Higgins, yesterday offered support for a series of immigrant demonstrations throughout the US, saying all migrant workers had the right to appropriate protection.

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.

The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, is due to travel to Washington DC today as part of his traditional St Patrick's Day trip to the United States.

Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern is to meet with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Washington DC this week to discuss the peace process in Northern Ireland and the plight of the estimated 25,000 undocumented Irish in the United States.

THE McCartney sisters, whose brother was stabbed to death outside a bar in Belfast almost a year ago, received the top accolade in the Irish Tatler Women of the Year Awards last night.

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.

Hundreds of protests and vigils will be held across the United States today to mark the 2,000th US military death in Iraq.

The Government will seek official Dáil backing today for US laws to legalise the status of undocumented Irish immigrants.

Murder victim Robert McCartney’s family will today head for Washington on the next stage of their bid to hound his killers into court.

INEVITABLY, the finger of suspicion for yesterday’s multi-million euro robbery points at the IRA but the possibility that other criminal gangs were behind the heist cannot be ruled out.

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

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams was beginning a four-day visit to the United States today for a series of political meetings linked to the Northern Ireland peace process.

Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams today said the Government had a duty to keep the British government true to its word on the Good Friday Agreement.

The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Brian Cowen, will hold a series of talks with several top US politicians in Washington today.