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 ...

Fine Gael's Heather Humphreys has congratulated Catherine Connolly who is set to become the next president of Ireland.

The veteran Left-winger Catherine Connolly was elected as Ireland’s new president, winning by a landslide margin after her ...

Ultimately, Fine Gael has no one to blame for this but itself. It had a respectable candidate, but it did not run a good ...

At the outset of Catherine Connolly’s campaign, she spoke about a movement – if this idea initially felt hypothetical, it ...

The fallout from this result will reverberate for a considerable time, particularly for the losers, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael ...

MARY Lou McDonald has backed the idea of a referendum to change the nomination process for future Presidential elections ...

The left-wing candidate secured 63.4% of the vote, edging her rival Heather Humphreys of Fine Gael, the centrist ruling party ...

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