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Joe Kennedy III ‘optimistic’ over Stormont’s future

Kennedy was appointed as the United States special envoy to Northern Ireland by President Joe Biden in December of 2022.

His brief was to focus on economic development and closer ties.

Since his appointment, Kennedy has made 10 visits to Northern Ireland.

With the advent of a new administration in the US, his current trip is to be his last.

On Wednesday, Kennedy was awarded honorary doctorates from both Queen’s and Ulster University, at a joint ceremony held at Stormont.

The outgoing special envoy is part of one of the most famous families in American politics, being the grandson of presidential candidate Robert Kennedy and great nephew of US President John F Kennedy.

Kennedy himself served as the US representative for Massachusetts’s 4th congressional district from 2013 to 2021.

The post of special envoy to Northern Ireland had been vacant for most of Donald Trump’s first term in office, after Mick Mulvaney quit in January 2021 having served less than a year during the first Trump administration.


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