The Government today allocated €218,000 funding towards the welfare of Irish people in foreign prisons.

WE thank Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and the Irish Government for its advocacy work on behalf of the undocumented Irish in the US.

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

Support services aiding Irish emigrants in Britain, Australia and Canada will benefit from grants of over €600,000, it was confirmed today.

IRISH emigrants were left out in the cold by the Government in its 2005 Estimates, the Labour Party claimed yesterday.