Michael D Higgins

‘We can’t look at those drowned in the sea… without realising that something has gone desperately wrong,’ Michael D Higgins says

We are creating machines whose reasoning and analytical abilities are way beyond our human ability to understand

Higgins speaks at opening of major food security conference in Senegal

Inside Politics: Government closes Citywest asylum centre for new residents amid severe accommodation shortage

Somewhere between the bank bailout and the election of Trump, incontinent rage became normalised

President calls for sympathy for refugees and modern-day slaves on visit to Senegal

Michael D Higgins meets Senegal’s President Macky Sall at presidential palace in Dakar during visit

Mr Higgins (56) was diagnosed with leukemia last summer and faced his death with trademark humour

Birds animate our physical world but so many species in Ireland are rapidly winging it towards extinction

Interview: His friends have slagged him about the ‘one day a year’ gig, but bringing more money into the event is a year-round job, not without its sensitivities

Ambassador to Holy See likely to be State’s sole official representative at St Peter’s as President not attending

Sr Orla Treacy has spent 17 years running schools and a health centre in South Sudan, and is slowly seeing a change in a country that likes to marry off girls fast

On October 7th, 10 people died following an explosion at an Applegreen service station in Co Donegal

President welcomes people spending ‘first Christmas in Ireland’

New Taoiseach says his mission is to work on what needed to be done for this generation and the next, providing hope and housing

President Michael D Higgins says Irish soldiers ‘risk their lives every day in order to build and maintain peace in conflict zones’

New protocols following campaign by Ciarán and Orlaith Staunton led to 16,000 lives being saved

‘We must regain our resonance with the world to avoid passing on a hostile and volatile planet Earth’

Speaking on Blindboy podcast Michael D Higgins said market cannot fix crisis by itself and Government has role to play

Dr Gabriel Scally’s concluding progress report into scandal is likely to point to significant work to be done on mandatory disclosure

Sitting judges will decide whether future Supreme Courts will be composed of liberals, radicals or conservatives.

‘I look forward very much to continuing our excellent co-operation’

Fundraising efforts raise more than €1 million for the Donegal community as Higgins praises ‘inspirational’ response

President’s remarks are an unusual criticism of the policy of a foreign government

Ireland’s axis has shifted and the President should articulate our ideals and values to help us plot the country’s future

Britain's sense of loss may run deep but the death of the queen highlights the merit of a republic

Mahmoud Abbas’s visit comes ahead of diplomatic engagements at UN General Assembly in New York

King and queen consort to meet political representatives and Northern Ireland secretary at Hillsborough prior to service at St Anne’s Cathedral

Queen set a ‘new forward looking relationship between our nations’, President Michael D Higgins says

Eamon Ryan’s mother died after a tragic accident on Inishbofin Island while on holiday

While many start out in a party gene pool, they quickly carve out a new identity. The one thing they can’t survive is going into government

As a partner, name and personality, Sabina Higgins is as publicly embedded in this 12-year presidency as her husband

Minister of State Robert Troy says it is worrying that letter welcomed by Russian ambassador and published on presidency website

Statement from President Michael D Higgins fails to address substance of correspondence

Law, as well as smartphones acting as undercover news-gathering cameras, means firms have little control over what becomes public

Taoiseach risks a row over neutrality at home as he asserts an Irish post-Brexit identity that’s far closer to the EU

Region has endured devastating hunger three times in 30 years. On the previous two occasions, the world said ‘never again’

Higgins says gender equality measures in Ireland should be re-examined with ‘urgency’

Caveat: President isn’t wrong when he says housing is a `disaster’ but that doesn’t mean he knows how to fix the problem

President Michael D Higgins recites Joyce at a small ceremony at Áras an Uachtaráin