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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

President Michael D Higgins was right to make reference to the war in Gaza during a speech marking Holocaust Memorial Day, Tánaiste Simon Harris has said.

Irish president Michael D. Higgins was invited to speak at the National Holocaust Memorial commemoration yesterday. He managed to bungle it, of course. Twice he referred to the "attempted genocide ...

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 ...

Reaching the grand old age of 100 is by no means a guarantee, so it’s without doubt an occasion worth celebrating – and Nancy ...

The current agreement must end the killing, but as a matter of urgency deliver the massive scale-up in humanitarian aid which is urgently needed to save more lives Michael D Higgins The Irish ...

President of Ireland 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 ...