Obama selects Dubliner Power as UN ambassador

A Dublin-born Pulitzer prize winner has been selected by President Barack Obama as nominee for US ambassador to the UN.

Samantha Power, who in 2008 called Hillary Clinton “a monster” is due to be named by the White House as the successor to Susan Rice as UN ambassador.

Ms Power, a former White House aide and Harvard professor who lived in Castleknock in Dublin until she was 9, is a strong advocate for human rights.