Patrick Day Programme News Today

The Irish government's extra funding will go to the Washington Ireland Program's objectives of educational opportunities for students in Ireland.

"Ireland needs you to help us build homes" will be the message conveyed to Irish construction workers abroad as part of a new outreach.

Ireland House in Chicago will "play a central role in unlocking potential and new opportunities that will benefit both Ireland and the Midwest.”

Speaking in the US House of Representatives, Congressman Richard Neal congratulated the new First Minister and welcomed the return of power-sharing in Northern Ireland.

A new National Liming Programme has been launched to help farmers "offset part of the expense of using lime".

Minister Charlie McConalogue will travel to New Zealand as the government has announced the biggest ever St. Patrick’s Day Programme today.