The US ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith with Michael Smurfit on the 18th green of the K Club at Straffan, Co Kildare on Wednesday morning as they launched the 1998 Fulbright Ambassador's Cup Golf Tournament to be held in June. The Fulbright Programme provides funds for educational and cultural exchanges for young people. Kennedy Smith, who celebrates a birthday next week, chooses her favourite poems on RTE Radio's The Darkness Echoing tomorrow morning. She discusses Robert Frost, Patrick Kavanagh, Sebastian Barry and Ogden Nash with presenter Mary O'Donnell, and says she is very happy with the road she has chosen.