The Government today allocated €34,000 in funding towards the fight for immigration reform for Irish illegals in the US.

Some 20,000 Irish school leavers will able to live and work in the US for a year under a new visa deal expected to be signed today.

Taoiseach Brian Cowen today described his four-day visit to the United States, to promote Ireland as a business hub with a vibrant economy, as a success.

TAOISEACH Brian Cowen has played down suggestions that the rejection of the Lisbon treaty could make US companies more reluctant to invest in Ireland.

Taoiseach Brian Cowen travels to the United States today for his first official visit since taking office.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern travels to Boston today as his continues his final overseas trip in office.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern will join an elite band of international statesmen today with a historical address to a Joint Session of the US Congress.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern will deliver his historic address to the US Houses of Congress in Washington today, marking the high point of his final days in office.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern tonight left for the United States as he prepares for one of his last and most prestigious official engagements.

The next president of the United States will maintain his or her country’s strong links with Stormont, Martin McGuinness predicted today.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern is to be invited to address both Houses of the United States Congress, it emerged tonight.

Disinfectant measures at ports and airports in the North to prevent the spread of foot-and-mouth disease have ended, it emerged today.

A delegation of US Congressmen visiting the North have been urged to keep pressure on the IRA to dismantle its structures, it emerged today.

THE family of murdered Belfast father-of-two Robert McCartney will hand over a dossier on his killing to US President George Bush when they meet him in the White House tomorrow.