A leading Irish-American politician has said there is little hope of any reform of America's immigration law until at least the year 2020.

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.

The North’s First and Deputy First Ministers were in the United States today urging corporate America that the province is a good place for them to invest despite the global downturn.