Ahern to discuss 'undocumented' Irish in US

Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern is to meet with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Washington DC this week to discuss the peace process in Northern Ireland and the plight of the estimated 25,000 undocumented Irish in the United States.

Mr Ahern will also meet US Northern Ireland special envoy Mitchell Reiss to brief him on re-establishing the power sharing government in the North, and talks he and Northern Irish Secretary Peter Hain have recently had with the main political parties.