Michael D Higgins

Gaisce Gold Awards: President Michael D Higgins praises winners’ ‘hard work, perseverance and commitment’

Seventy-three young people presented with awards at ceremony at Áras an Uachtaráin

Could Michael D topple Christy from the top of the album charts?

President Michael D Higgins records an LP; the Oireachtas spends more taxpayers’ cash on something it’s not clear we need; and an ex-rugby star encounters some unwanted wingers

‘Devastated’ Pat Shortt pays tribute to comedy partner Jon Kenny who has died aged 66

President remembers Limerick actor, best known as one half of D’Unbelievables, as an ‘extraordinary talent’

President Michael D Higgins writes letter of congratulations to Donald Trump after his US election victory

President previously criticised Donald Trump’s record on climate change as ‘regressive’

Ireland can play pivotal role in ensuring global food security while meeting challenge of an overheating planet

If Ireland delivers a credible food/health/climate strategy for the 2025 conferences it should open longer-term possibilities

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

Analysis: Tense, eventful week at the United Nations gives everyone plenty to talk about

State’s leaders all trod carefully in New York with mixed success as homelessness, migrants, Israel, Palestine and Iran all impinged as part of political reality

Israeli onslaught in Lebanon dominates New York agenda

Irish leaders attend UN assembly while national children’s hospital faces further delays

President Higgins’s letter and Israel: What is the controversy all about?

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‘I did not use the word leak’: Higgins says he does not regret comments about Israeli embassy circulating letter

Taoiseach says he is not going to fall into ‘trap from Israel’ of making letter into an issue

‘Leaked’ Michael D Higgins letter to Iran: What has happened and is it really a big deal?

President says he believes the letter was ‘circulated from the Israeli embassy’, a claim denied by Israel

Appreciation: Ronnie O’Gorman

Founder of the Galway Advertiser has left a lasting legacy

President Michael D Higgins accuses Israeli embassy of leaking letter

Israeli embassy rejects allegation, calling it ‘baseless’, ‘highly inflammatory’ and ‘potentially slanderous’

Ploughing Championships: Three-day-old lamb, a dance champion and Pony Club games set the scene

Media event is held ahead of the National Ploughing Championships in Rathinska, Co Laois, from September 17th to 19th

Michael D: The Movie – Higgins in the frame for the Mary Robinson big-screen treatment

Plus: Intercom man’s vote of confidence in Trump; Shane ‘Mullet’ Byrne’s victory in dispute with tenants; and Adam Clayton’s application for gardener gaff

Which politicians have done most for Irish culture? As the general election approaches, it’s a question worth asking

The main parties’ approaches to Ireland’s cultural life was encapsulated by the opposing outlooks of Charles Haughey and Garret FitzGerald

Aidan O’Leary obituary: Humanitarian who led WHO’s polio eradication efforts

Former Irish Army member was renowned for his collaborative leadership style and his ability to find solutions to complex problems

Irishman’s humanitarian efforts saved ‘hundreds of thousands of lives’, funeral Mass hears

Aidan O’Leary, a former Army captain, worked with UN and was director of polio eradication programme with WHO

Sixty years ago, the clerics denounced Edna O’Brien. On Saturday she was welcomed home

A flotilla of lake boats carried mourners to Holy Island, where the ‘brilliant, wild, soaring and indomitable’ Irish writer was laid to rest

President’s condolence letter

Criticism is unwarranted

President’s letter to Iran

The letter overlooked Iran’s malign activities in Somalia and the broader region

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