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 ...

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

Some members of the Irish Jewish Community objected to Mr Higgins delivering the keynote address at the event due to his ...

“Most poems are too long,” Michael would say. Most poems are too Longley, I’d reply, but the truth is most poems are not Longley enough. He joked that if some of the people who call ...

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 ...

A number of protesters stood and turned their backs to President Michael D Higgins as he delivered his speech during the National Holocaust Memorial Day Commemoration in the Mansion House this ...

President Michael D Higgins has paid tribute to Mr Longley, describing him as one of Ireland's greatest poets. "I regarded him as a peerless poet with at least three poetic lives. It is ...

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. Micheal Martin with President ...

He passed away in hospital on Wednesday. Irish President Michael D Higgins described him as “a peerless poet”. Born in Belfast in 1939 and educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution ...