US ambassador: My father died of broken heart

America’s ambassador to the UN, Dublin-born Samantha Power, has spoken of how her father may have drank himself to death out of heartbreak at her departure for the US as a child.

The revelation is contained in an in-depth analysis of the 44-year-old’s career by journalist Evan Osnos writing for The New Yorker magazine.

In it, Ms Power describes her close relationship with her Dubliner father, Jim Power, a dentist, piano player, raconteur and drinker.