As one presidential clan departs, another arrives to mark JFK’s roots

As Ireland said farewell to the Obamas, a Co Limerick town was yesterday making final preparations to welcome the Kennedy clan.

As one presidential clan departs, another arrives to mark JFK’s roots
Wed, 19 Jun, 2013 - 01:00
Jimmy Woulfe, Mid-West Correspondent

JFK’s daughter, Caroline Kennedy, along with her husband Edwin Schlossberg, their three children, and other members of the extended family will visit Bruff on Friday.

The old courthouse in the town will be renamed after John F Kennedy’s great grandfather, Thomas Fitzgerald, who emigrated to the US from Bruff in 1852.

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