I realised how weary I had grown of trying to explain President Michael D Higgins’s words and proclivities to curious but incredulous English people. The first time I remember doing so is when ...

“What a despicable person, what twisted policy,” said Israeli foreign affairs minister Gideon Sa’ar yesterday evening, in reference to a speech by President Michael D Higgins at the ...

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 ...

Irish President Michael D Higgins and his wife Sabina with Holocaust survivors Suzi Diamond (left) and Tomi Reichenthal (second left) as they arrive at a Holocaust Memorial Day event Israeli ...

Irish President Michael D. Higgins uses his speech at Ireland’s Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony to discuss the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, and praises the “long-overdue ceasefire ...

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 ...

Protesters were removed from the memorial event during an address by Mr Higgins on Sunday. A number of people objected to the invitation to Mr Higgins to deliver the keynote address to the ...

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.

The current agreement must end the killing, but as a matter of urgency deliver the massive scale-up in humanitarian aid which is urgently needed to save more lives Michael D Higgins The Irish ...

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 ...

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 ...

Protesters were removed from the memorial event during an address by Michael D Higgins on Sunday. Irish President Michael D Higgins with Holocaust survivor Tomi Reichenthal as they arrive at a ...