“Leave it! I don’t need it.” So the script lay abandoned at his feet, witness to the oratorical skills of Michael D Higgins as he launched into his speech. Michael D is enough of a performer ...

The row about whether the president should address the annual Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration ignores his speeches at previous events President Michael D Higgins during the Holocaust Memorial ...

President Michael D Higgins will deliver the keynote speech at an event to mark National Holocaust Memorial Day despite objections from the Israeli ambassador to Ireland. Dana Erlich has called ...

Dana Erlich says President will be a distraction as she also criticises Simon Harris President Michael D Higgins and outgoing Israeli ambassador Dana Erlich President Michael D Higgins has ...

A defiant President Michael D Higgins is still "working on his speech" for the upcoming Holocaust memorial ceremony despite leading Jewish representatives urging him to stay away from the event ...

Mr Martin will formally become Ireland’s taoiseach during a ceremony with President Michael D Higgins at his official residence at Aras an Uachtarain in Dublin. Mr Higgins will sign the warrant ...

Micheál Martin has defended Michael Lowry’s role in government formation talks, claiming Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael had no choice but to deal with the Regional Independents. At a tense press conference on Sunday after his party had backed the arrangement,

The organiser of the National Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration has defended its decision to invite President Michael D Higgins to give the keynote address, despite opposition from some in the ...

The President of Ireland Michael D Higgins has rejected a call to withdraw from giving a speech at a Holocaust Memorial Day event. This follows an interview in which the out-going Ambassador of ...

Only three of the 15 Ministers are women: Helen McEntee, Jennier Carroll MacNeill and Norma Foley, which makes for a ratio of 80:20 of men to women. Social Democrats TD Jennifer Whitmore has said it is “deeply disappointing” that the number of women in cabinet has reduced by 25 per cent to just three.

President of Ireland Michael D Higgins was accused of making ‘anti-Israel’ statements (PA) The Irish President has rejected calls from Israel’s outgoing ambassador to the country to cancel a ...

President Michael D Higgins has said that he has strongly condemned anti-Semitism "again and again" throughout his career and he has rejected a call to withdraw from giving the keynote speech at ...