Irish President Michael D Higgins has spent the night in hospital to have a localised infection examined. President Higgins ...

As the election approached, veterans such as former taoiseach Bertie Ahern and ex-minister Mary Hanafin were knocking on the ...

Ireland elects pro-Palestine president Catherine Connolly, who has called Israel a "terrorist state" and vowed to be a "voice ...

Stephen Murphy, Ireland correspondent for Sky News, said voters who were used to having six or seven candidates to choose ...

R aised by a single father who had seven sons and seven daughters to feed in Galway to being swept to the steps of Áras an ...

The politician won after Ireland's left-leaning opposition parties, including Sinn Féin, united to back her, and she is ...

Irish President Michael D Higgins has congratulated his successor Catherine Connolly after her landslide election win. The ...

Connolly, 68, said she would champion diversity and be a voice for peace, one that “builds on our policy of neutrality.” ...

Left-wing independent Catherine Connolly, who secured the backing of Ireland's left-leaning parties including Sinn Féin, has ...

Catherine Connolly, a pro-immigration self-avowed socialist running as an independent, won Ireland’s 2025 presidential ...

Catherine Connolly, an independent socialist, was elected Ireland's next president in a landslide on Saturday. Connolly, 68, ...