President Higgins signs a law increasing junior ministers to a record 23, sparking criticism from opposition leaders ...

Spare a thought for the Coalition’s overdue triplets, still crawling towards the brightness of the ministerial day while ...

Irish President Michael D. Higgins uses his speech at Ireland’s Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony to discuss the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, and praises the “long-overdue ceasefire ...

Awe-struck students from St Mary’s College in Arklow enjoyed a day out in the capital they won’t soon forget after they were surprised with a “once in a lifetime” opportunity to meet President Michael ...

“Most poems are too long,” Michael would say. Most poems are too Longley, I’d reply, but the truth is most poems are not Longley enough. He joked that if some of the people who call ...

An Israeli woman living in Ireland was forcibly ejected and a number of protesters walked out during President Michael D Higgins’s speech at the Holocaust Memorial Day event on Sunday.

President Michael D Higgins was among mourners who joined Longley’s family at Saturday’s service in All Souls Church in Belfast. The renowned poet died in hospital at the age of 85 on January 22. A ...

A Co Armagh poet has been conferred with a prestigious honour by President Michael D Higgins. Paul Muldoon from Portadown received the Saoi of Aosdána at Áras an Uachtaráin on Thursday. At the ...

Exclusive: Israeli deputy foreign minister Sharren Haskel has spoken to The Independent in the wake of Jewish protesters being ejected from a Holocaust memorial event addressed by Ireland’s president ...

Former Eurovision winner Linda Martin has said she is 'mulling over' a potential run in the upcoming Presidential Elections.

A Holocaust academic has backed the decision to invite President D Higgins to speak at tomorrow’s National Memorial Day event – but urged the head of State to focus on the Holocaust and not ...

Former Eurovision winner Linda Martin has said a political party has approached her to run for President of Ireland. Asked whether she would indeed run next year, when Michael D Higgins’s second and ...