US researchers may have discovered a mass grave for nearly five dozen 19th Century Irish immigrants who died of cholera weeks after travelling to Pennsylvania to build a railroad.

IF revenge is a dish best eaten cold, then George Dubya Bush is making a meal out of freezing ‘old Europe’ out of the lucrative contracts on the table for the reconstruction of Iraq.

The US government has awarded an American company a contract that could be worth €620m to help rebuild Iraq’s power, water and sewage systems and repair airports and a seaport.