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Edward Helmore

Joe Kennedy III named as US economic envoy to Northern Ireland

Joe Kennedy will fill a post vacant since Donald Trump’s former White House chief of staff left the role last year.
Joe Kennedy will fill a post vacant since Donald Trump’s former White House chief of staff left the role last year. Photograph: Charles Krupa/AP

Joe Kennedy III, the 42-year-old scion of one of America’s most famous political families, has agreed to serve as the special envoy to Northern Ireland for economic affairs, the US state department announced on Monday.

The former Massachusetts congressman and grandson of US attorney general Robert F Kennedy is replacing Mick Mulvaney, a former White House chief of staff under Donald Trump, who stepped down from the role last year.

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