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

Irish President Michael D Higgins and his wife Sabina with Holocaust ... as they arrive at a Holocaust Memorial Day event Israeli Ambassador to Ireland Dana Erlich has accused the Irish president ...

MICHAEL D Higgins has been an outstanding first citizen of Ireland for the past 14 years ... It is essential that the president should highlight the devastation endured by ordinary people and ...

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 ...

Michael D Higgins’s comments on ‘long-overdue ceasefire’ in Gaza are a ‘cheap, despicable provocation’, says Israel’s foreign minister Ireland’s president has been branded ...

A Streamstown nun was recently recognised for her dedicated work in Sierra Leone with a Presidential Distinguished Service Award.

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 ...

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

Michael Longley will be recognised as one of the greatest poets that Ireland has ever produced, and it has long been my belief that his work is of the level that would be befitting of a Nobel ...

Israel’s deputy foreign minister has claimed she fears for the safety of Jews in Ireland after a row ... a row which erupted over Irish president Michael Higgins’ speech at a Holocaust ...