Michael D Higgins

Appointment of first full ambassador from Palestine approved by Government

Jilan Wahba Abdalmajid to become full envoy after carrying out role of ‘ambassador — head of mission’

Former RTÉ broadcaster David Davin-Power ‘showed bravery to the bitter end’, son tells funeral Mass

Former RTÉ northern editor and political correspondent died last weekend after short illness

General election: When and how will it be called?

Taoiseach Simon Harris is expected to set the wheels in motion for the next general election on Friday, with votes to be cast three weeks later, on Friday, November 29th

Death toll in Spain’s floods rises to 158 with ‘dozens and dozens’ missing, says minister

One year’s worth of rain fell in eights hours in parts of country’s Valencia region while rescue teams continue searches

‘I’ve never seen anything like it before’: Irish in Spain left in ‘shock’ after fatal flooding

Dublin woman forced to abandon home with no preparation as rooms began to fill with water in ‘frightening’ experience

Posthumous presidential pardons ‘lift the shadow’ from Kerry men hanged 142 years ago

President signs pardons for Sylvester Poff and James Barrett who were wrongfully convicted and hanged for murder in 1882

‘Stop this horror of history,’ says President Higgins as Israel moves to ban aid agency

Taoiseach Simon Harris says Europe needs to find the ‘moral courage’ to act on the issue

What Gerry Adams really said to David Trimble in the loo during peace talks

Drama bigs up Adams-Trimble encounter; Saoirse Ronan gets a knock-back; buskers object to Grafton Street development; and Sabina Higgins takes on a woolly role

‘Very unusual’ for President to suggest concerns around Planning Bill without referring it to Supreme Court

Statement from President suggests a dedicated case taken to the Supreme Court would be more appropriate than a referral under his own constitutional powers

Families of Stardust fire victims ‘let down by the State’, says Michael D Higgins

President hosted majority of relatives and friends of 48 people who died in fire, thanking them for ‘tenacity’ in their fight for truth

‘I met Nigel Farage in the bar’: the vicar’s daughter who ‘liked to party’ and is now first minister of Wales

Eluned Morgan travels to Cork on Thursday for a bilateral with the Irish Government, but first she must learn a cúpla focail for her trip to the Áras

Presidential award for footballer Seamus Coleman, designer Orla Kiely and playwright Rosalind Scanlon

Tánaiste says Irish people overseas ‘continue to make vital contributions to their communities and on the international stage’

‘We have not received threats’: Unifil spokesman responds to claim made by Higgins on Irish troops in Lebanon

Michael D Higgins, in his capacity as supreme commander of the Defence Forces, said threats had been made by Israel to the Unifil peacekeeping force

Mary O’Rourke, in the thick of it again – only this time, for the last time

Forty years in politics. A trailblazer. When she arrived in Leinster House in 1981, she wasn’t ‘just there to make up the numbers’, says Micheál Martin

Irish troops ‘determined to fulfil mission’ in Lebanon as Israel invasion continues

Unifil ‘deeply concerned’ about activities of Israeli army close to Irish base in south Lebanon

‘Outrageous’ of Israel to threaten peacekeepers in Lebanon, President Michael D Higgins says

Israel rejects criticism, saying claim that IDF had threatened Unifil forces was ‘unfounded and inflammatory’

Atlas of the Irish Civil War. New Perspectives: History presented with imagination and innovation

Issues raised in third volume of historical series are at core of concerns still with us today

Rules-based international order is a poor substitute for the vision of the UN’s founders

Worldview: The United Nations, marginalised in the competition between the US, China and Russia and their emerging blocs, needs a radical overhaul

Will Budget 2025 be like a Toy Show giveaway?

Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan

The Week That Was at the UN General Assembly: Jennifer Bray’s New York diary

Micheal D Higgins, Simon Harris and Micheál Martin make headlines with comments on homelessness and immigration, Israel and Iran, a trip to Washington and time spent with Meryl Streep

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