Robert F. Kennedy's granddaughter Saoirse Hill dies at 22

[Fla Dem]

By MARK PRATT and WILLIAM J. KOLE
34 minutes ago
AP

BOSTON (AP) — A granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1968 while running for president, has died. Saoirse Kennedy Hill was 22.

The Kennedy family confirmed the death in a statement Thursday night following reports that a person had been found unresponsive that day at the storied Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, after police responded to a call about a possible drug overdose. The statement was issued by Brian Wright O’Connor, a spokesman for Saoirse Hill’s uncle, former congressman Joseph P. Kennedy II.

Hill was the daughter of Robert and Ethel Kennedy’s fifth child, Courtney, and Paul Michael Hill, who was one of four people falsely convicted in the 1974 Irish Republican Army bombings of two pubs.

“She lit up our lives with her love, her peals of laughter and her generous spirit,” the statement said, adding she was passionate about human rights and women’s empowerment and worked with indigenous communities to build schools in Mexico.

She attended Boston College, where she was a member of the class of 2020, the university confirmed to The Boston Globe.

The Cape & Islands district attorney’s office said Barnstable police responded to a home “for a reported unattended death” Thursday afternoon, according to a statement cited by news outlets. Barnstable police and Massachusetts State Police detectives assigned to the district attorney’s office were investigating.

The family statement did not include a cause of death, but audio of a Barnstable police scanner call obtained by The Associated Press said officers were responding to a report of a drug overdose at the compound.

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[Tipperary]

1. Very sad.

Heard this earlier. Apparently she had problems with depression, but perhaps drugs were an issue too.

[hlthe2b]

4. I heard reported that she'd spoken of being sexually assaulted in her teens as well.

[Tipperary]

6. Yeah I heard that too.

And apparently it was someone that she had trusted. Heartbreaking.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Drugs are almost never the root cause. Self-medicating for depression is almost always the situation

[Tipperary]

9. I agree.

Very true.

[Fla Dem]

2. This family certainly has seen their share of sorrows.

Ethel Kennedy her grandmother is still alive at 91.

[virgogal]

7. My family also has had many sorrows,but we don't get the headlines.

[Fla Dem]

10. I am sorry for your losses and sorrows.

I by no means meant to suggest that the Kennedys' losses were any greater than anyone else's. I would say the same for any family I know that suffered such losses.

The fact the Kennedy family has been in the news and public eye for close to 60 years makes them a very public family. Hence the publicity/headlines. Which would be true for anyone/family with a public persona.

[tenderfoot]

11. What a silly, unnecessary comment

[virgogal]

12. All comments are unnecessary.

[tenderfoot]

13. Then why comment to begin with?

[Ilsa]

3. Extremely sad. Depression,

Trauma, and stress of three years of college can be deadly. Prayers for all families dealing with such pain.

[llashram]

5. sad

sad, sad, sad. To die so young

[gopiscrap]

14. welcome to DU

[llashram]

15. interesting watering hole