Joseph Patrick Kennedy III, the United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland, speaking at the American Independence Day celebrations, held on Thursday (almost two weeks before July 4) at the US consul general residence at Ardnavally in south Belfast. The host, the incumbent consul general Paul Narain, seen standing to the right in the video, will shortly be leaving NI to take up a new position in the US state department, working alongside the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken