Fund wound up with €100k donation

A former aide to US president John F Kennedy with strong links to West Cork has wound up his 30-year philanthropic fund with a record €100,000 donation to a domestic violence support group.

Charles U Daly, who worked for Kennedy in the White House in the 1960s, made the announcement in Bantry last night as he closed the Mary Daly Fund.

Mr Daly, 90, who owns a home in the harbour town, established the fund in his first wife Mary’s memory in 1987 following her death.