Spare a thought for the Coalition’s overdue triplets, still crawling towards the brightness of the ministerial day while ...

A former tánaiste is being lined up as a Government-backed replacement for Michael D Higgins in the Áras. Government anxiety ...

It was disheartening recently to see a breakdown of civilised debate in our “meeting place” (the meaning of the word “Dáil ... for President Michael D Higgins to not address the ...

Photo: Michael Mac Sweeney/Provision Further chaotic scenes loom in Leinster House this week over Dáil speaking time ... However, President Michael D ­Higgins is the most popular leader in ...

and members of both Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann. President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, who also participates in Kildare's Pause for Peace, said of the movement: “Your efforts to bring ...

President has the courage and intellect to articulate carefully chosen sentiments of empathy and concern for events both past and present President Michael D Higgins ... in the Dáil and Seanad ...

The Dáil was suspended multiple times following a row about whether members of the Regional Independents group could be given opposition speaking time. Follow the events of the day live here. 7.06pm ...

More info I burn with shame every time I think about Michael D Higgins at Ireland's Holocaust ... at a Remembrance Sunday Mass. I was in the Dail for the Stardust state apology, when TD Michael ...

Independents Michael McDowell, Ronán Mullen and Alice Mary Higgins have all been re-elected ... with 11,390 first-preference votes. Seanad Éireann is the upper house of the Oireachtas.

On the same day as the former barrister received his seal of office from President Michael D Higgins, official figures ... He will face a bruising few years in the Dáil with the Opposition ...