Brian Burns, Donald Trump’s likely pick for Ambassador to Ireland, has very strong ties to the town of Sneem in Co.Kerry and has told relatives there that one of this first acts as ambassador ...

Mr Burns left Sneem in the mid-1960s to work in the construction industry in Oxford and it is there he met his wife Mary. The couple returned to Ireland every year on holidays and eight years ago ...

The sculpture, a series of four pyramidical structures, is situated on a patch of boggy ground by the church in the village of Sneem ... many public sculptures in Ireland, Slíghe na Síoga ...

which made de Gaulle’s decision to holiday in Ireland a source of wonder at the time. The Irish Times editorial expressed it best: "The presence of General de Gaulle in Sneem, Co Kerry ...