Seán Rainford and Dr Jamie McLoughlin examine what the Constitution says about a president’s authority to speak out.

President Higgins signs a law increasing junior ministers to a record 23, sparking criticism from opposition leaders ...

Awe-struck students from St Mary’s College in Arklow enjoyed a day out in the capital they won’t soon forget after they were surprised with a “once in a lifetime” opportunity to meet President Michael ...

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 ...

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 ...

President Michael D Higgins was right to make reference to the war in Gaza during a speech marking Holocaust Memorial Day, Tánaiste Simon Harris has said.

That will be the contest to choose the successor to President Michael D Higgins, who steps down after two terms in office. The election will be held in late autumn, with the inauguration in early ...

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.

Deputy First Minister for Northern Ireland Emma Little-Pengelly has criticised Irish president Michael D Higgins (Mark Marlow/PA) Northern Ireland’s deputy First Minister has criticised Irish ...

An Israeli woman living in Ireland was forcibly ejected and a number of protesters walked out during President Michael D Higgins’s speech at the Holocaust Memorial Day event on Sunday.