THE Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform (ILIR) held a major rally in the Bronx area of New York city last Friday to highlight the plight of undocumented Irish immigrants.

The Government is to give an additional $50,000 (€38,997) to an influential lobby group working to ensure undocumented Irish can stay in the US, it emerged today.

THERE was a palpable sense of anger in Long Island’s Irish Centre on Saturday night when Kerry woman Mary Brennan took the stage.

Foreign Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern may jet into Washington next week in a last-ditch lobbying bid on US immigration reform.

FEARFUL Irish emigrants working illegally in the US hope a new visa deal can be hammered out to let them stay.