Independent Senators Ronan Mullen and Alice Mary Higgins have been re-elected to the National Union of Ireland (NUI) Seanad constituency. Their election follows that of poll topper Michael McDowell, ...

Emma Little-Pengelly said the Republic’s president was ‘absolutely wrong’ to raise the issues at the annual Holocaust ...

Ms Higgins was elected without reaching the quota with 8,822 votes, as the remaining surplus would not assist the next candidates: consultant geriatrician Rónán Collins (4,357) and the Green Party’s ...

The Tanaiste has defended the decision by Michael D Higgins to raise the ongoing conflict in Gaza during his speech to an ...

NI's deputy first minister criticised Michael D Higgins for raising the conflict in Gaza while the First Minister said he was ...

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

Several members of the Jewish community had criticised the fact Mr Higgins was invited to give the keynote speech at the event marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz ...

Some members of the Irish Jewish Community objected to Mr Higgins delivering the keynote address at the event due to his stance on the ongoing situation in the Middle East. Survivors of the ...

The protest began after Mr Higgins referenced the conflict in Gaza during his speech at Dublin’s Mansion House marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp.

This came after Ireland’s tiny and beleaguered Jewish community pleaded that the country’s president, Michael Higgins, not speak at the event. Ireland’s Jews have been warning for weeks that Mr.

Gideon Sa’ar, Israel’s foreign minister, called his words a “cheap, despicable provocation” as he accused Mr Higgins of echoing “Hamas’s anti-Semitic lies and propaganda at a Holocaust ...

It comes after some objected to the invitation to Mr Higgins to deliver the keynote address to the National Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration in Dublin on Sunday. Survivors of the Holocaust ...