The new diaspora strategy will include a key focus on Irish people abroad who are vulnerable due to their immigration status

Micheál Martin viewed the Irish Memorial in Philadelphia dedicated to those who died or emigrated to the United States.

Over the last three budgets, a cut of €1,000 was applied to the contribution fee for third-level students, but it is expected that it will return to €3,000 this year.

This was the third successive 12-month period where over 100,000 people immigrated to Ireland.

One afternoon I took out my tape recorder and taped my grandmother as she recalled her memories of her childhood in the 1930s when she was a pupil in Bofield National School and lived in Ellemountain, a few miles from Bonniconlon.

Hannah Nash's Greener Fields shares the stories of young people who chose to leave Ireland, and what it taught them about home