Father Joe Kennedy gives a big smile ... A wonderful forward for Dublin.” He saw many of the top players. He rated Sean Purcell highly. And Des Foley. “And then you had the likes of ...

Kennedy, loved Ireland and wrote emotional letters to an Irish priest, Father Joseph Leonard, for 14 years after first meeting him in Dublin in 1950. After the harrowing death of her husband ...

The letters exchanged by Kennedy and Vincentian Fr. Joseph Leonard, who died in 1964, are set to be auctioned in Dublin in June. Excerpts were published in The Irish Times newspaper. One letter ...

John F Kennedy with Éamon de Valera and Seán Lemass at the US embassy in Dublin during the president’s visit to Ireland in 1963. Photo: Getty Joe Kennedy told president Éamon de Valera that ...

US president John F Kennedy's motorcade makes its way through a sea of well-wishers in Cork in June 1963. In his letter to Éamon de Valera, JFK's father, Joe Kennedy, also highlighted the ...