Northern Ireland looms even larger an issue for Brexit as US Irish Americans wield influence.

On her recent visit to Europe, Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the US House of Representatives, addressed members of the Dail.

Neutrality does not suffice in a world dominated by the US and China, and with the far right resurgent, Ireland must stand up for the values of the European Union, says Malcolm Byrne.

Investment at the landmark Silversprings Hotel in Cork by new owners Clayton/Dalata who acquired it two years ago as part of a nine-hotel €445m acquisition from the Moran Group will top €5 million by next year, while the hotel’s €3.2m reworked two-storey Events Centre, ballroom and business meeting rooms reopens from tomorrow.

Cork City’s St Patrick’s Festival of music, fun, and food kicks off today in a three-day spree expected to attract 100,000 spectators.

Last weekend, the Constitutional Convention received submissions on extending the right to vote to the Irish abroad.

Exploiting the US president’s Irish ancestry helped Ireland retain its influence on Capitol Hill, writes Ryle Dwyer

The Fianna Fáil leader may have a problem convincing the grassroots his strategy is the right one, writes political editor Paul O’Brien

President Barack Obama has appealed for public support to push Congress to avert an unprecedented default on America’s national debt as politicians worked on dual tracks to reach an elusive deal.

IT wasn’t the man he had travelled across the Atlantic to see. But when Taoiseach Enda Kenny yesterday found himself in the same Washington Hotel lobby as Duke Special he would have been forgiven for asking the Belfast songwriter for a rendition of his hit I Never Thought This Day Would Come.

Former US president Jimmy Carter urged one of the most powerful American politicians of his time to lift a ban on arms sales to the RUC.

Ryle Dwyer on how Irish affairs figured in US politics as Reagan came to power

TED Kennedy wasn’t Jack and he wasn’t Bobby but, despite growing tarnished and growing old, he achieved more than both of them put together, particularly when it came to Ireland.

Senator Ted Kennedy, who died yesterday, will be best remembered in this country as a true friend of Ireland, but he will be remembered in the United States for much more. He was elected to the US Senate in 1962 at a time when the Irish-Americans had finally come out of the political shadows following the election of his brother, John F Kennedy, to the White House in 1960.

YOUR mild rebuke (Editorial, March 6) of the Irish State for its failure in not having an honours system in place whereby we could officially acknowledge the contribution made to it by those deemed as worthy recipients is unwarranted.

One of Ireland’s top diplomats who opened the first Irish embassy in Moscow during the Cold War is standing down after decades representing the country around the world, he revealed today.

THE Irish-American politician the late Tip O’Neill said that all politics are local.

ON ST Patrick’s Day 1977, four prominent Irish-American politicians issued a statement in Washington denouncing the violence in Northern Ireland.

A total of 90% of Irish law now comes from Europe, according to an expert on a radio programme. 90%. Only 10% of what we elect TDs to do is actually being done in this country. Just as companies outsource their manufacturing to China, we as a nation have outsourced our legislating to Brussels and Strasbourg.

The political progress that has been made in the North could be undone by raking over its bloody past, a former senator has warned.

MICHAEL MCDOWELL, we were told this week, had depicted himself as the ‘Messiah of Dublin South East’ who had engaged in the “final betrayal”.

Former US presidential candidate John Kerry has been forced to pull plans to visit the North this weekend.

Former US Presidential candidate John Kerry is to become the latest senior American politician to deliver at lecture at one of the North’s universities.

FANCY living like a lord on the banks of the River Blackwater? — then here’s your chance. Mallow Castle comes on the market this week with a €7 million-plus price tag.

The war in Iraq is dissuading the international community from intervening in the growing crisis in Darfur, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said today.

UN secretary-general Kofi Annan has described the Irish peace process as a source of inspiration for the rest of the world.

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan is expected to discuss the war in Iraq when he delivers a lecture today.

US Senator Hillary Clinton and her husband, former US president Bill Clinton, will visit a peace centre in the North named after him today.

The ball is in the court of Northern Ireland politicians if there is going to be political progress next month, former US President Bill Clinton claimed today.

Former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds held secret talks with loyalists in their Belfast heartland 10 years ago to secure their ceasefire, he said tonight.

Former US President Bill Clinton today urged the people of Northern Ireland to continue on the road to peace and lead the world by their example.