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.

For hours, the young cadets waited, standing at attention by the freshly dug grave — a striking tableau in their crisp, green tunics and brown breeches, rifles by their sides.

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.

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.

Thousands of people are expected to visit Co Wexford today for the commemoration to mark 50 years since the visit of John F Kennedy to Ireland.

Caroline Kennedy was just 5 when her father kissed her goodbye and left the US for his visit to Ireland, but she has made that journey in her imagination many times since.

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

A flame taken from the eternal one on US president John F Kennedy’s grave has arrived in Ireland as part of events to mark 50 years since his visit.

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 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.

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.

Technology specialists behind the London 2012 Olympic Torch have arrived in New Ross to work on the newly built Emigrant Flame, which will be lit by members of the Kennedy family and the Taoiseach this summer.

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THE British family history website Ancestry.co.uk today launches a collection of 19th century historical Irish records, to help Irish family historians and the estimated 80 million people worldwide of Irish descent to explore their heritage.

FORMER Miss World, Rosanna Davison, and Late Late show presenter, Ryan Tubridy, have been granted tax-free status by the Revenue Commissioners under the artists’ exemption scheme.

PRIMARILY because of the current unpopularity of US foreign policy, the focus on President George W Bush’s Irish visit, unfortunately, was on security rather than welcome, but let us again consider his Irish connections.