The tax-payer is set to splurge just over €350,000 on new bespoke, tailored uniforms for staff at Leinster House and Áras an Uachtaráin.

Organisers of a large scale event in Dublin tomorrow to mark 20 years since the State apology to victims of clerical child sex abuse and a decade on from the publication of the Ryan Report have said they "regret" a lack of consultation with many survivors over the schedule and related issues.

The Office of the President is returning nearly €240,000 in unspent allowance fees during Michael D Higgins' first term.

The silence of the Church was deafening as 230 beautiful, brave, and resilient Magdalene women came to town this past week, writes Joyce Fegan

Former taoiseach Enda Kenny has ruled out any possibility of running for the presidency and said it is entirely a matter for Michael D Higgins if he wants to remain at Áras an Uachtaráin.

The Irish ambassador to Britain has described our emigrants’ contribution to the country as “outstanding.”

The State-owned mansion in Dublin’s Phoenix Park used to accommodate visiting heads of state was described in 1986 as “slightly shabby” with an interior that was “one of spacious but faded elegance”.

Over €2m has been paid out in the last five years to more than 1,000 centenarians born in Ireland but now living in other countries.

Yesterday was a pretty busy day for Ireland’s President Michael D Higgins.

Garda security chiefs have left “nothing to chance” in their preparations for expected trips by both President Michael D Higgins and Taoiseach Enda Kenny to France for Ireland’s Euro 2016 matches.

President Micheal D Higgins has pulled out of attending a civic dinner in Belfast to mark the centenary of the Easter Rising.

When the 32nd Dáil convenes on Thursday, all 158 members will take their seats for two very important items of business.

Ahead of today’s President’s Cup match in Cork, President Michael D Higgins sits down to talk football with Liam Mackey and the result is a conversation encompassing the League of Ireland, Fifa, Roy Keane, Jose Mourinho and Kofi Annan, as well as Seamus Coleman meeting the Duke of Edinburgh, that Jon Walters selfie and how he’d like to see Ireland play at Euro 2016.

A woman who sent obscene phone messages threatening to bomb President Michael D Higgins and several government ministers has pleaded guilty to harassing a priest.

A woman sent obscene phone messages to Áras an Uachtaráin threatening to bomb President Michael D Higgins if he visited England, a court has heard.

Court hears of litany of obscene calls to Oireachtas and Áras

The Government’s revised water charges scheme has been signed into law by the President, meaning bills will arrive in homes by April.

Advisers live in the half-light between the public mandate of the elected office holders they serve and the permanent government of the civil service who eschew and usually escape the strobe lights, relentlessly searching and bleaching the political process

President Michael D Higgins will be in Cork this weekend to listen to young people’s vision for a new Ireland.

Abbeville and its grounds, which were the site of the home of former taoiseach Charles J Haughey, are up for sale for an asking price of €7.5m.

Certainly, in the two decades since the two Marys took up the office, the chief significance of the Presidency has come to be seen much more explicitly in terms of the ways in which our Head of State embodies, represents and reflects core values that we want associated with Ireland.

AT the moment it’s hard to imagine what Ireland might be like in 50 months’ time.

150 years ago Victoria made what is undoubtedly the most famous visit by a member of the British royal family to these shores. Ryle Dwyer revisits the eight days that marked the start of a very valuable tourism trade.

Taoiseach Brian Cowen has officially brought the 30th Dáil to an end this afternoon.

A PILOT GAA project aimed at offsetting the isolation of older men, particularly in rural areas, is to be made permanent.

A HOMELESSNESS support agency has said it is concerned about growing waiting lists and a potential homelessness “time bomb”.

EARLIER this month, members of Ardmore/Grange ICA guild in Co Waterford visited Áras An Uachtaráin.

WATERFORD’S Mayor claims he has been “snubbed” by an organisation for which he and other have helped raise €40,000 over the years.

FOUR political parties wisely see nothing wrong with granting Mary McAleese a further term as president.

MARY HARNEY doesn’t particularly like chocolate and it’s not because she’s given up the sweet stuff for Lent.