and backed President Michael D Higgins’s decision to attend an event commemorating National Holocaust Day despite a backlash from the Jewish community. Mr Martin’s party on Sunday voted to ...

RTÉ bosses were completely blindsided by presenter Evanne Ní Chuilinn's decision to quit the broadcaster and jump over to politics.

A sort of political column by Dara Bradley Galway’s would-be senior cabinet minister, Hildegarde Naughton, has put on a brave ...

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.

President has the courage and intellect to articulate carefully chosen sentiments of empathy and concern for events both past and present President Michael D Higgins is that rarest of things in ...

That will be the contest to choose the successor to President Michael D Higgins, who steps down after two terms in office. The election will be held in late autumn, with the inauguration in early ...

The Aga Khan, leader of the Ismaili Muslims, head of a major development aid foundation and the owner of mystery horse Shergar, died yesterday in Lisbon at the age of 88, his foundation announced ...

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 ...

President Michael D Higgins also expressed his deepest condolences on the death of the Aga Khan. He described the spiritual leader as a “dedicated philanthropist”, adding that he made an ...