
Saoirse Roisin Kennedy-Hill has been identified as the young woman who died of a possible drug overdose at the Kennedy Compound on Cape Cod. She was 22 years old.

'Our hearts are shattered by the loss of our beloved Saoirse,' the Kennedy family said in a statement. 'Her life was filled with hope, promise and love.'

The statement quoted Saoirse's grandmother, Ethel Kennedy, as saying: 'The world is a little less beautiful today.'

Paramedics responding to a call of a suspected overdose just after 2.30pm Thursday arrived at the scene and found the patient in cardiac arrest.

The woman was transported to Cape Cod Hospital, where she was pronounced dead, according to local media.

Barnstable police are now investigating.

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Saoirse Kennedy Hill (pictured) has been identified as the young woman who died of a possible drug overdose at the Kennedy Compound on Cape Cod. She was 22 years old

'Our hearts are shattered by the loss of our beloved Saoirse,' the Kennedy family said in a statement. 'Her life was filled with hope, promise and love'

Saoirse is seen with her mother Courtney Kennedy Hill at the family compound in 2016

Saoirse is seen on the family's boat in an Instagram photo posted by her uncle Robert F Kennedy Jr over the weekend

Saorsie is seen (back row third from right) celebrating her grandmother Ethel's birthday last year surrounded by family members

Saorsie's father is Paul Hill, an Irishman who was one of the Guildford Four, a group of men wrongly convicted of bombings carried out by the IRA in 1974. Hill and Courtney Kennedy (above together) married in 1993 and welcomed their only daughter in 1997

Paramedics responding to a call of a suspected overdose just after 2.30pm Thursday arrived at the scene (pictured) and found the patient in cardiac arrest

The Kennedy Compound consists of multiple homes across six acres of waterfront property along Nantucket Sound in Hyannis Port

Saorsie is the daughter of Courtney Kennedy Hill and granddaughter of the late Robert F Kennedy and his wife Ethel, who lives at the home where the alleged overdose occurred.

While she was attending boarding school at Deerfield Academy in 2016, Saorsie penned an article for the student paper about her struggles with depression and mental illness.

KENNEDY FAMILY STATEMENT ON SAOIRSE'S DEATH 'Our hearts are shattered by the loss of our beloved Saoirse. Her life was filled with hope, promise and love. She cared deeply about her friends and family, especially her mother Courtney, her father Paul, her stepmother Stephanie, and her grandmother Ethel, who said, 'The world is a little less beautiful today. 'She lit up our lives with her love, her peals of laughter and her generous spirit. Saoirse was passionately moved by the causes of human rights and women's empowerment and found great joy in volunteer work, working alongside indigenous communities to build schools in Mexico. We will love her and miss her forever.' Advertisement

She revealed that she was sexually assaulted by a friend during her junior year and attempted to take her own life.

Saorsie underwent treatment for depression before returning to school. In the article, which she penned during her senior year, she described feeling unsettled and lonely because few people on campus knew about her illness.

She said her depression 'took root in the beginning of my middle school years and will be with me for the rest of my life'.

Saorsie went on to enroll at Boston College, where she was a communication major and vice president of the College Democrats.

Her father is Paul Michael Hill, an Irishman who was one of the Guildford Four, a group of men wrongly convicted of bombings carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) in 1974.

Hill and Courtney Kennedy married in 1993 and welcomed their only daughter - whose name means 'freedom' in Irish - in 1997. They lived in Ireland from 2002 until 2006, the year they legally separated.

Saoirse and Courtney Kennedy are seen outside the White House in 2015

Saorsie is pictured at 18 years old before her high school prom in May 2016

The 22-year-old is seen (third row, fifth from the right) at the Kennedy compound with family

The incident reportedly took place at 28 Marchant Avenue, a home belonging to Ethel Kennedy

A Barnstable Police cruiser sits at the top of Marchant Avenue as police investigate the death of Saoirse Kennedy Hill

People walk down the dock at the Hyannis Port Yacht Club by the Kennedy Compound as police begin their investigations

The lights were on at the Hyannis Port Yacht Club by the Kennedy Compound where police are investigating the death of Saoirse Kennedy Hill

The overdose incident took place at 28 Marchant Avenue, a home belonging to Ethel Kennedy, the 91-year-old widow of late US Senator Robert F Kennedy.

The law enforcement response drew attention from neighbors outside the property.

The Kennedy Compound consists of multiple homes across six acres of waterfront property along Nantucket Sound in Hyannis Port.

It has been home to multiple members of the political powerhouse Kennedy clan for several decades.

Joseph and Rose Kennedy, parents to John, Robert and Edward, bought the first home at 50 Marchant Ave in 1928.

Ted Kennedy added the second home at 28 Marchant Ave in 1955 and sold it to his brother Robert in 1961.

It is worth an estimated $2.3million.

The Kennedy family is no stranger to tragedy, having lost several members under unusual circumstances over the years.

Kerry Kennedy, daughter of Robert and Ethel Kennedy, and Saoirse's aunt posted several pictures of her niece on Instagram

'Our hearts are shattered by the loss of our beloved Saoirse,' Kerry wrote in one touching tribute

She also shared pictures of Saoirse from her younger years, such as this picture with an elaborate headress

Kerry Kennedy's Instagram posts paint a picture of a happy-go-lucky girl in the prime of her life

The family are pictured together on a previous trip to Ireland, with Saoirse, her mom Courtney Kennedy and father Paul Hill

In 1963, then-President John F Kennedy was assassinated.

JFK's brother, presidential candidate and US Senator Robert F Kennedy was killed by an assassin five years later in 1968.

Another brother, Joseph P Kennedy Jr was killed in World War II, and their sister Kathleen Cavendish died in a plane crash in 1948.

The president's son, John F Kennedy Jr, was killed in a plane crash in 1999 off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, along with his wife and sister-in-law.

Robert F and Ethel Kennedy's son David Anthony died of an overdose at age 28 in 1984. Their other son, Michael Kennedy, died aged 39 in a skiing accident in 1997.

Edward 'Ted' Kennedy was involved in an accident in Martha's Vineyard in 1969 that left a young woman dead.

The US senator drove off a bridge on the tiny island of Chappaquiddick. He got out of the water but his passenger, 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne, did not.

Ted pleaded guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of an accident causing personal injury.

Kopechne was a respected political operative who had worked on the presidential campaign of Robert F Kennedy.

The Kennedy Compound consists of multiple homes across six acres of waterfront property along Nantucket Sound in Hyannis Port

The Kennedy clan is seen celebrating the Fourth of July at the compound earlier this month

The Kennedy family is no stranger to tragedy, having lost several members under unusual circumstances over the years. In 1963, then-President John F Kennedy was assassinated. JFK's brother, presidential candidate and US Senator Robert F Kennedy was killed by an assassin five years later in 1968. The brothers are pictured together in 1963

Saoirse's father Paul Hill and the three other members of the Guildford Four served 14 years of a life sentence for the attack which killed five people and injured 65, before their convictions were overturned in 1989. Hill is seen arriving at appeals court that year with Courtney Kennedy (center) and her mother Ethel (right)

Saoirse is seen placing a white rose at the Eternal Flame, President John F Kennedy's gravesite, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, in 2000

Saoirse's father Paul Hill and the three other members of the Guildford Four served 14 years of a life sentence for the attack which killed five people and injured 65, before their convictions were overturned in 1989.

The high-profile deadly attack in Guildford - along with ones in Woolwich and Birmingham - in 1974 became better known for the huge miscarriages of justices they led to in the aftermath, with the public demanding the perpetrators be brought to justice.

Hill, Gerry Conlon, Paddy Armstrong and Carole Richardson were jailed in 1975 for the attack on the Horse and Groom pub in Guildford which killed four soldiers and a civilian and injured scores more. Hill and Armstrong were also jailed for the Woolwich bombing in which two people died.

In a separate trial, The Birmingham Six - Paddy Joe Hill, Hugh Callaghan, Richard McIlkenny, Gerry Hunter, Billy Power and Johnny Walker - were convicted for carrying out the Midlands bombings.

Later Giuseppe, and members of the Maguire family - who became known as the Maguire Seven - were arrested and jailed for possessing and supplying the IRA with the explosives for the bombs.

But all those involved protested their innocence and after years of campaigning their convictions were overturned.

In October 1989 the Court of Appeal quashed the sentences of the Guildford Four after they had served 14 years behind bars, amid doubts raised about the police evidence against them.

An investigation into the case by Avon and Somerset Police found serious flaws in the way Surrey Police handled the case.

In July 2000 the Prime Minister Tony Blair became the first senior politician to apologise to the Guildford Four.

In a letter sent to Paul Hill's wife, Courtney Kennedy, he wrote: 'There were miscarriages of justice in your husband's case, and the cases of those convicted with him. I am very sorry indeed that this should have happened.'

The acclaimed 1993 film In The Name Of The Father, starring Daniel Day Lewis, was based on the Guildford Four.

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