Through his efforts at promoting peace in Northern Ireland in the 1990s,[REF] created and established in 1998 was the Walsh Visa program,[REF][REF] an exchange program for Irish adults to spend up to two years in the US,[REF][REF] gaining enriching employment, educational, and conflict resolution experiences [REF].
In 2006, Walsh and both Congress Members Brian Higgins and Tim Murphy met with several government leaders in Ireland in which there was a confirmation announcement of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) weapons decommissioning [REF].