US President Joe Biden has started his three-day visit to the Republic of Ireland by meeting the country's leader Leo Varadkar.
Ednews informs referring to BBC that he travelled from Northern Ireland on Air Force One, having spent a short time in Belfast to mark 25 years since the Good Friday peace agreement.
He was met on the rain-soaked runway at Dublin Airport by the taoiseach (Irish prime minister).
On the next leg of his trip he met distant relatives in the Cooley Peninsula and the village of Carlingford in County Louth.
In Carlingford crowds lined the quayside as the presidential motorcade arrived.