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Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney at a meeting on Capitol Hill. Photograph: Suzanne Lynch
Brexit withdrawal agreement ‘allows us all to move on’, says Coveney

Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney has said he believes that Britain can leave the European Union with a deal before March 29th if there is a (...)

Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney: held meetings in New York on Tuesday as Ireland continues its efforts to secure a seat on the United Nations Security Council. File Photograph: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters
Coveney arrives in Washington amid Brexit concerns

Tánaiste Simon Coveney has arrived in Washington for talks with senior administration officials and members of Congress, amid increasing concern among(...)

The letter, which has been signed by 40 senior figures including Gary Hart, comes ahead of Tanaiste Simon Coveney’s visit to Washington this week. File photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire
‘This alarms us,’ key Irish-Americans write to May, Varadkar on Brexit

A group of prominent Irish-Americans, including former US Special Envoy to Northern Ireland Gary Hart and five former US ambassadors, have written to (...)

Bill Flynn (right) in New York with then Northern Ireland deputy first minister Seamus Mallon, in 2000. Photograph: Paul Faith/PA
Tributes paid to ‘champion’ of NI peace process Bill Flynn

Tánaiste Simon Coveney has led the tributes to Irish-American businessman Bill Flynn, a leading advocate for the Northern Irish peace process in the U(...)

George Mitchell at an event to mark the 20th anniversary of the Belfast Agreement at Queen’s University, Belfast, on April 10th, 2018. Photograph: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images
America Letter: distinctly Irish theme to the week in Washington

Donald Trump was out of town this week, escaping to Mar-a-Lago in Florida to sit out the political controversies that continue to engulf his presidenc(...)

Bill Clinton: British diplomat Jonathan Powell conceded years later that the president’s decision to grant Adams a visa-waiver in 1994 was the right thing to do. Photograph: Getty Images
Adams’s arrival in the US gave him an enormous boost

Gerry Adams arrived at Kennedy Airport in New York at 4.30pm on Monday, January 31st, 1994, on Aer Lingus flight 105 from Dublin. Previously denied ac(...)

A police officer secures an area where flowers are left near the site of a terror attack in New York on the previous day. Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty
Blaming green card system for NY attack ‘missing the mark’

Blaming the immigration programme for the terror attack in New York this week is ‘missing the mark’, immigration lawyer and former congressman Bruce M(...)

US President Donald Trump has endorsed a bill proposed by Senator Tom Cotton (left) to reduce legal immigration and evaluate visa applications based on merit. Photographer: Zach Gibson/Bloomberg
‘Snowball’s chance in hell’ of US immigration bill passing

Legal immigration into the US may be reduced by as much as half if new legislation, proposed by two senators and endorsed by president Donald Trump, p(...)

Donald Trump has backed a plan to reduce legal immigration to the US. Photograph: Carlos Barria/Reuters
Irish urged to reject Trump’s ‘racist’ immigration move

The Irish should reject a plan by US president Donald Trump to prioritise high-skilled, English-speaking immigrants because it is “racist”, a leading (...)

Martin McGuinness: “He helped bring an end to the longest-running political dispute in the history of the western world. After decades and against great odds, we saw the gun permanently taken out of Irish politics,” said Congressman Richard Neal. Photograph: Matt Kavanagh
US politicians and Irish-Americans attend Martin McGuinness Mass

Friends, family and members of Congress gathered in the early-morning sunshine in Washington DC on Tuesday as the US political community paid tribute (...)

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