IOL: McAleese continues North American tour

President Mary McAleese is to visit a charity set up by Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates in Seattle today as part of her official visit to the US and Canada.

She is visiting the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which funds HIV/Aids programmes, before being guest of honour at a dinner hosted by the Irish Professionals Network.

The president is being joined in Seattle by a delegation of 29 Irish aeronautical and technological companies, and will attend a number of business events hosted by Enterprise Ireland.