Cloch Le Carn focuses on “the last of the Kennedy brothers”- Senator Edward M. Kennedy after a political career which was as controversial as it was long. He leaves a huge and complex legacy not only to American politics but to the world and in no small way to Ireland. Ted Kennedy was the youngest of the Kennedy clan and forever remembered as the surviving brother – after the assasinations of JFK and RFK. (His oldest brother Joe jnr had been killed in WWII). The trauma following the violent deaths of his siblings, conflicted by the Kennedy political ambition, left a long shadow over Ted’s life, both public and private. Understandably in 1968, already a US Senator for 6 years, he declined to replace his slain brother Bobby as the Democratic candidate for the presidency. Within a year another tragedy would effectively end any hope of Ted ever reaching the White House. “I think that Chappaquiddick was in someways the fullstop to his political ambitions despite what he wanted to do – I think there is only so much people can forgive and are willing to forgive, even when he died it was the C word that kept coming up…time and time again.” Ryan Tubridy However he went on to become one of the longest serving US Senators ever and a key power broker in Washington. His involvement with the Irish Peace Process was crucial to leveraging US Government influence on the parties, particularly in regard to the famous US Visa for Gerry Adams MP. “I think his legacy in the US is the extraordinary achievement in a very complex political system in congress that he managed to get more than I think it’s 330 bills to which his name is attached covering a range of subjects from health care to civil rights to all sorts of issues. I think it is a huge political legacy and ironically probably a greater political legacy in the US than he could have achieved as a one or two term President.” Seán Donlon – Former Irish Ambassador to Washington