A number of protesters stood and turned their backs to President Michael D Higgins as he delivered his speech during the ...

The deputy first minister has criticised Irish president Michael D Higgins for raising the ongoing conflict in Gaza during ...

Northern Ireland's deputy First Minister has criticised Irish president Michael D Higgins for raising the ongoing conflict in ...

A small number of protesters reportedly turned their backs on Mr Higgins as he addressed the current conflict in the Middle ...

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 ...

The president's popularity is unquestionable but his successor should not use the office to openly criticise policy ...

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.

Some members of the Irish Jewish Community objected to Mr Higgins delivering the keynote address at the event due to his ...

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. Several members of the Jewish community ...

“Most poems are too long,” Michael would say. Most poems are too Longley, I’d reply, but the truth is most poems are not Longley enough. He joked that if some of the people who call ...

Irish President Michael D Higgins with Holocaust survivor Tomi Reichenthal as they arrive at a Holocaust Memorial Day event at the Mansion House in Dublin (Brian Lawless/PA) The Tanaiste has ...