Joe Biden will visit Co Mayo today.

The US Vice President has family links to the county after his great-great-grandfather Patrick Blewitt emigrated from there in 1835.

Biden began his six-day visit to Ireland last night and held a private one-on-one meeting with Enda Kenny at Government Buildings.

There he was presented with a hurley and sliotar.

This morning he will visit Áras an Uachtaráin to sign the same visitors’ book that his president Barack Obama did just over five years ago.

After a private meeting with President Michael D Higgins he will fly to Knock Airport to spend the day in Co Mayo.

Biden will spend the day touring the county, led by Taoiseach Enda Kenny, and is likely to meet some of his distant cousins there.