A number of protesters stood and turned their backs to President Michael D Higgins as he delivered his speech during the ...

PROTESTERS have been removed from a Holocaust memorial event during an address by Irish President Michael D Higgins. It comes after some objected to the invitation to Mr Higgins to deliver the ...

May I send my deepest condolences to Michael’s wife, the scholar and writer Edna ... often familial, snapshots. He’d called himself, in a previous interview, a “failed hermit” but was ...

Michael Longley and President Michael D Higgins "May I send my deepest condolences to Michael’s wife, the scholar and writer Edna Longley, to his children and to all of his family, friends and ...

Irish President Michael D Higgins described him as “a peerless ... At Trinity he met his future wife Edna and after their marriage in the mid-1960s they settled back in Belfast.

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 presidet M ...

Several protesters were removed from a Holocaust commemoration event during President Michael D Higgins's speech on Sunday.

Emma Little-Pengelly said the Republic’s president was ‘absolutely wrong’ to raise the issues at the annual Holocaust memorial event.

President Michael D Higgins called Ms O'Brien a "fearless teller ... in a sensational 1995 trial of murdering his former wife but was found responsible for her death in a civil lawsuit and was ...

Irish president Michael D Higgins led the tributes to Mr Longley ... “May I send my deepest condolences to Michael’s wife, the scholar and writer Edna Longley, to his children and to all ...

President Michael D Higgins paid tribute to Mr Ó Snodaigh ... “I was privileged to call both Pádraig and his late wife, the artist Cliodhna Cussen, friends of mine. I recall their strong ...