Sabina Higgins

‘In this country, where most of the population are play-actors ... it’s bound to yield players’

Councillors to propose that playwright’s house be used as a cultural centre

Dublin City Council is buying house for homeless accommodation

Council ‘not overly confident’ money to buy property could be secured due to Covid-19

Taoiseach does not meet Prokopios Pavlopoulos due to election campaigning

Michael D Higgins meets UN peacekeepers policing Lebanese-Israeli border

‘Mission accomplished’ says smiling Rory Gallagher fan Steinmeier of Higgins’s visit

Michael D Higgins and Frank-Walter Steinmeier attend Other Voices concert in Berlin

President Higgins meets Angela Merkel and Berlin mayor during second day of state visit

Ancient Chinese martial art is popular in Ireland for its health benefits

Dissident republican group ‘not representative’ of ideals of those who fought in 1916

Several incidents of intimidation and abuse directed against Muslim women recorded

Playwright wrote works including ‘The Plough and the Stars’ in the North Circular Road house

Dublin Mosque event marks International Woman’s Day with visit from Sabina Higgins

One year on, the pair reflect on the ‘business arrangement’ that attracted global interest

Smiles all round on a special night as the President shows how lucky we are to have him

Interested in representing Ireland abroad? The next generation of diplomats are being recruited

‘Women have to be empowered or the planet cannot survive socially, environmentally or economically’

‘You might go to festivals and see 70 per cent, 75 per cent or 80 per cent men on stage’

First time for many to speak freely to other women incarcerated in the laundries

Two grooms, two witnesses, a harpist and the registrar attended

Young Philosopher Awards seeks to recognise critical thinking and communication skills

It is easy to turn every discussion into a ding-dong and every news item into an occasion for blame

Camara ‘has changed the lives’ of two million people in Africa, the Caribbean and Ireland

Visitor numbers can keep rising if hotel shortfall is met, says Tourism Ireland chief

President speaks with Malcolm Turnbull about historic links between Ireland and Australia

Higgins’s speech at a new Famine memorial in Perth emphasised contemporary parallels

Members of the public helped unpick the National Library’s image collection on Flickr

Event in Dublin marks second World War genocide of 500,000 Roma

President delivers rebuke to world leaders who ‘should know better’ on climate change

Royal couple will go to Glasnevin to remember those who died in Rising and war

News Review of 2016: After 33 years, a new generation of activists found their voice

Noted novelist and playwright also co-founded Dublin’s influential Focus Theatre

President Higgins presents members of Defence Forces with commemorative medals

A Thousand Reasons, One Wish: ‘Don’t look at colour of my skin, look at me as a human being’

President highlights need for citizens to identify ‘illusory rhetoric’ after recent events

President visits Mine Action Visitor Centre, observes cluster munition survey demonstration

Mourners at Galway Cathedral hear rowing was ‘passion’ of founding member of PDs’

Former Fianna Fáil and PD politician served as TD from 1965 until 2002

New organisation set up to support teachers who wish to offer Junior Cycle short course