Prominent Irish politicians - including President Michael D Higgins and Simon Harris - have been accused of anti-Semitism ...

Critics decry Michael D Higgins speech for Holocaust Memorial Day, politicians’ stance on Gaza and the Occupied Territories ...

Politics is a tough game. No one can envy the past number of weeks as Fianna Fáil's Mary Butler hung on the hope of securing ...

It is time to turbocharge all aspects of the Good Friday Agreement. The scourge of intolerance has spread from being just ...

Further chaotic scenes loom in Leinster House this week over Dáil speaking time as a new Sunday Independent/Ireland Thinks ...

Acclaimed Belfast poet Michael Longley managed to touch the souls of people with just a few words, his funeral has heard.

President Michael D. Higgins has presented this year’s Presidential Distinguished Service Awards for the Irish Abroad at a ...

Micheal Martin with President Michael D Higgins (Maxwell Photography/PA) The rest of the junior ministerial appointments will be made next week. Fine Gael leader Simon Harris, who became Tanaiste and ...

After receiving Dail approval, Mr Martin and his family met President Michael D Higgins at his official residence at Aras an Uachtarain, where he formally became Taoiseach during a short ceremony.

President Michael D Higgins presents seals of office to new ministers alongside new Taoiseach Micheál Martin (Pic: RollingNews.ie) It led too to a lifelong ambition of Micheál Martin to become ...