Holders of UK visit visas who wish to travel to Ireland should apply for their Irish visa in their country of permanent resi …

Some of the press implied that I had issued the visa to appeal to the Irish vote in America and because I was still angry at Major for his attempts to help President Bush during the campaign.

From the very beginning of the preparation of the visa to the day when Embassy of Ireland in Beijing sent me the passport, you had been working painstakingly all the way.