Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald and Garda Commissioner Noirín O’Sullivan will be joined by one-time US presidential hopeful Martin O’Malley and Bernie Sanders strategist Tadd Devine on a heavy-hitting schedule for this year’s Kennedy Summer School.

Up to 130,000 people in Ireland are currently pioneers.

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

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.

Two candidates have been nominated to contest the ICSA presidential election on Dec 12.

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 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.

Gardaí believe three burglars threw a stolen shotgun, a flatscreen TV, a laptop, and other property out of their car when they panicked and fled after crashing through a routine checkpoint.

US president Barack Obama, has said he intends to return to Ireland for a visit but was unable to give a commitment to travel South when he attends the G8 summit in County Fermanagh in June.

Farmers will be able to keep a more easily accessible record of their fertiliser usage with a new mobile phone app created by Teagasc in association with Vodafone.

Gardaí are seeking assistance from the public in tracing the whereabouts of Carl McGuinness, 16, who is missing from the New Ross, Co Wexford area.

A woman was killed and four other people injured in a car crash, gardaí said today.

AN Irish visit by Barack Obama is looking more likely following a conversation last night between the US president-elect and the Taoiseach.

HE WILL soon be 69 but Ger O’Neill has still got an awful lot to learn.

A serving Garda officer was today arrested as part of a major fraud investigation.

The inquests into the deaths of seven fishermen who died in two tragedies off the south-east coast is taking place in New Ross, Co Wexford, today.

A BABY abandoned in a toilet block on the Australian Gold Coast by his distraught young Irish mother has been reunited with her in Ireland.

A 40-year-old motorcyclist has died in a road accident in New Ross, Co Wexford.

A container vessel, registered in the tiny central American state of Belize, has been detained in New Ross, Co Wexford.

SINN FÉIN has high hopes of returning the party’s first MEPs in both the North and South next year.

A WEXFORD insurance broker suspected of disappearing with clients’ money and who had Christmas dinner with the Irish ambassador in Hungary while international search warrants were out for his arrest, has been remanded on continuing bail.

CUSTOMS officials at Dublin Port discovered more than four million smuggled cigarettes yesterday in the eight major seizure this year.

Eunice Shriver, the sister of former US President John F Kennedy, has arrived in Ireland this week.

Customs officials today seized a ship after it docked in New Ross, Co Wexford, with a smuggled consignment of 300,000 cigarettes.

DAVIDS LAD, sensationally banned for 42 days by the stewards at Naas last Sunday week, may yet contest the Aintree Grand National on April 5.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair was today warned not to damage the devolved political institutions in Northern Ireland when he speaks in the House of Commons next week.