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.

1) Fota House & Gardens, Co Cork

Did you hear the one about the staycationer who went to see some touristy stuff only to find them closed?

A LOCAL authority has turned down an appeal and again refused to release documents relating to garden designer Diarmuid Gavin’s controversial Sky Garden which could cost taxpayers up to €2.3 million.

A man who shot dead a Kilkenny postmaster failed to overturn his murder conviction today.

More than €10m is to be handed over for the upkeep of some of Ireland’s finest historic houses, the Government announced today.

A jury hearing the trial of a man charged with murdering a Kilkenny postmaster were told this morning the accused had no previous convictions and Gardai had checked his record with Chinese authorities.

A WEXFORD insurance broker suspected of disappearing with clients’' money had Christmas dinner with the Irish ambassador in Hungary while international search warrants were out for his arrest, a court heard.

A ship surveyor was appointed today to assess how a boat sank leading to the deaths of four men and a boy, including three generations of the same family, amid growing indications that a faulty water pump caused the fishing trip tragedy.

The Taoiseach has called on Irish people to adopt a more tolerant attitude towards immigrants and reject racism and prejudice.