The deputy first minister has criticised Irish president Michael D Higgins for raising the ongoing ... has used his office to raise his own personal view in terms of how strongly he feels about ...

They included Victor Boudreau, a longtime Liberal, Rodger Cuzner, a former Cape Breton MP and John McNair, a former provincial Liberal chief of staff. Despite the advisory board being ...

Sharren Haskel, who is being tipped as a possible next Israeli ambassador to the UK, spoke to The Independent in the wake of a row which erupted over Irish president Michael Higgins’ speech at a ...

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 ...

Israel’s deputy foreign minister has claimed she fears for the safety of Jews in Ireland after a row over the Dublin’s position on the Middle East conflict escalated over the weekend.

Jewish groups on Monday accused Ireland’s President Michael Higgins of politicizing the Israel-Hamas war during a Holocaust remembrance speech, with the country’s chief rabbi calling his ...

open image in gallery Irish President Michael D Higgins and his wife Sabina with Holocaust survivors Suzi Diamond (left) and Tomi Reichenthal at the Mansion House in Dublin (Brian Lawless/PA ...

The problem with politicians is that they will insist on indulging in partisan politicking, the distasteful and grubby ...

For many years, Michael D Higgins has been a highly political president of Ireland. To a greater extent than any of his recent predecessors, the Republic’s head of state has found a way to ...