Last-minute security sweeps are being carried out in Doonbeg Co Clare as the village is locked down while US Vice-President Mike Pence dines with relatives at a local restaurant this evening.

US Vice President Mike Pence will travel to Ireland next month on behalf of President Donald Trump, the White House has confirmed.

US vice-president Mike Pence is expected to visit Ireland this year.

Mike Pence, US vice-president, is to visit this country in September, it has been confirmed.

They were certainly disagreeing with each other, but that wasn’t why two of the women spoke louder and with more precise diction than the norm in a half-filled railway carriage.

US Vice President Mike Pence has said his country stands with Ireland as Brexit continues and will expand trade between the two nations.

The moves come as an effort to deliver humanitarian aid to the economically devastated nation faltered amid strong resistance from security forces who remain loyal to the socialist leader.

The National Rifle Association has banned its members from carrying their firearms during its annual forum while US President Donald Trump and his deputy Mike Pence are in attendance.

Emmanuel Macron's proposal for a new deal with Iran received a warm welcome from the UK, which said it was ready to work with allies to deal with issues like Tehran's ballistic missile programme and its regional ambitions.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has met Vice President Mike Pence in a behind-closed-doors encounter at his residence in Washington.

A meeting between Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and US Vice President Mike Pence will be held in private later this week.

US vice president Mike Pence said he has not ruled out the possibility of meeting with North Korean officials at the upcoming Olympics in South Korea.

US vice president Mike Pence has told Israel’s parliament that the US embassy will move to Jerusalem by the end of 2019, receiving a rousing ovation as he pledged to forge ahead with a plan that has set off weeks of unrest and thrown peace efforts into disarray.

US vice president Mike Pence has reiterated to Israeli leaders that the Trump administration plans to pull out of the landmark 2015 Iran nuclear deal unless the pact is amended.

US vice president Mike Pence has told Israel’s parliament that the US embassy will move to Jerusalem by the end of 2019.

US vice president Mike Pence has said reports that an adult film star had an alleged affair with President Donald Trump are "baseless allegations".

US vice president Mike Pence has told Israel’s parliament that the US embassy will move to Jerusalem by the end of 2019, receiving a rousing ovation as he pledged to forge ahead with a plan that has set off weeks of unrest and thrown peace efforts into disarray.

Latest: US vice president Mike Pence has "strongly" urged the Palestinians to return to the negotiating table.

Sinn Fein’s spokesperson on Defence, Aengus O’Snodaigh, has accused the Taoiseach of following on from ’successive Irish Governments’ in undermining Irish Neutrality.

US vice president Mike Pence has greeted soldiers at Shannon Airport in Ireland hours after the federal government shutdown in America.

US vice president Mike Pence has made an unannounced trip to Afghanistan to meet the country’s leaders and visit US troops.

President Donald Trump says Vice President Mike Pence's attendance at an NFL game at the weekend was "long planned".

US vice president Mike Pence said he "stands with the president" after he was asked about Donald Trump's comments on the weekend's violence in Charlottesville.

US vice president Mike Pence has hit back after a news report suggested he is laying groundwork for a possible presidential bid in 2020 if President Donald Trump does not run.

US vice president Mike Pence has said America will honour a refugee resettlement deal with Australia that Donald Trump once described as "dumb".

The US will not relent until it achieves its objective of ensuring the Korean Peninsula is free of nuclear weapons, Vice President Mike Pence has said while visiting Japan.

Mike Pence warned North Korea the "era of strategic patience is over" as he visited the Korean Demilitarised Zone within 24 hours of Pyongyang's failed missile test.

Latest: US Vice President Mike Pence has branded North Korea's failed missile launch a "provocation".

Trying to prove a point to someone who deals in ‘alternative facts’ is like trying to knit an Aran sweater out of overcooked spaghetti, writes Terry Prone.

Latest: Donald Trump has claimed Enda Kenny is "a great guy", and says the Taoiseach is his new friend.

Donald Trump has declared that the media are the "enemy of the people", but his vice president showed he is still willing to joke around with reporters - and poke fun at himself - in a venerable Washington tradition.

US vice president Mike Pence used a private email account to conduct public business when he was Indiana's governor, according to reports.

Rick Perry has been sworn in as President Donald Trump's energy secretary.

US vice president Mike Pence has reassured European Union officials about the Trump administration's stance towards the EU, according to European Council president Donald Tusk.

Vice President Mike Pence said today the US intended to "deepen our relationship with the European Union and the European community".

US Vice President Mike Pence has toured the site of a former Nazi concentration camp in Germany.

US vice president Mike Pence has said the United States will "hold Russia accountable" even as Donald Trump searches for common ground with Vladimir Putin's administration.

Donald Trump was told his national security adviser had misled his vice president about his contacts with Russia but waited two weeks to act, White House officials have said.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has spoken to US Vice President-Elect Pence on the phone tonight.

Vice President-elect Mike Pence will lead President-elect Donald Trump's transition team, replacing New Jersey governor Chris Christie.

Republican Mike Pence has won plaudits for a calm and collected performance in the US vice presidential debate - but it was his Democratic opponent Tim Kaine who landed the most telling blows after forcing him to confront - or not - Donald Trump's provocative remarks.

Democrat Tim Kaine aggressively challenged Republican Mike Pence over a long list of Donald Trump's controversial positions and statements in the only vice presidential debate of the US election campaign.

Donald Trump's running mate Mike Pence is breaking with the Republican nominee by endorsing House Speaker Paul Ryan in his primary fight.