Aileen Lee sits down with artist Valerie Walsh Jolley.

Hillary Clinton paid a visit to Ireland today to celebrate the 25th anniversary of children's charity Barretstown.

With just 56% of women in Ireland breastfeeding, advocates want to raise awareness about unethical marketing practices in the infant feeding industry.

Some 220 Magdalene laundry survivors from as far away as Australia and the US are set to attend a historic two-day event next month to enable them to meet and talk to each other.

Historian Catherine Corless, the Irish Coast Guard, crew of Rescue 116, rugby referee Joy Neville and campaigner Vera Twomey were among those honoured at tonight’s Rehab People of the Year Awards.

President Michael D Higgins is in Scotland with the UK's Prince of Wales to mark 10 years since he helped secure the future of an 18th century stately home.

Sabina Higgins has said anti-Semitism has been reawakened due to right-wing politics and warned that “poisonous ideologies” must not be tolerated.

Sabina Higgins has called for the rejection of “poisonous ideologies” and the “politics of hate”.

Hundreds of families have arrived at Áras an Uachtaráin this evening for the annual Christmas Tree lighting ceremony.

President Michael D Higgins begins his visit to Laos today - the final country on his tour of south east Asia.

She dressed our own First Lady, Bowie and has been on-set designer for everything from Vikings to The Tudors. Ahead of her appearance at the Fastnet Film Festival, Clodagh Finn watches Joan Bergin at work at Ashford Studios.

Sabina Higgins remarks in Trinity are not the only ones made by the first couple on the thorny issue of abortion, writes Alison O’Connor.

Sabina Higgins’s presence at the National Student Midwives’ Debate, on May 4, where she said that our abortion laws were ‘an outrage against women’, was one of 16 events attended by her in a solo capacity this year.

One of the key commemorations of the 1916 Easter Rising centenary has taken place with President Michael D Higgins honouring all those who fought and died for Irish freedom.

At 11am silence cut through the crisp November air in Dublin’s city centre.

“On the night it happened I was in my nan’s house. Gardaí came and my mam collected me and took me to my auntie’s house. I heard one of them saying my dad was in prison. I was very sad. I was heartbroken. I will always remember that night.”

President Higgins is meeting the Chinese premier today.

President Michael D. Higgins is starting a week-long state visit to China.

Is Eamon Gilmore already Labour’s lost leader before a vote has been cast?

IT was a sudden switch from pomp to pig pen for the President yesterday.

Martin McGuinness has heaped praise on Britain’s Queen for the way she influences the peace process.

For their historic state visit to London, President Michael D Higgins and wife Sabina have both shown considerable sartorial flair.

President Higgins has visited a farm and equestrian stables on the third day of his State visit to London.

A return to Ireland by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II is looking increasingly likely after the success of President Michael D Higgins’ visit to London.

Haunted by more than 900 years of often bloody history, Windsor Castle was a fitting place to try and lay to rest the ghosts of a troubled past.

A lavish royal welcome is being extended to President Michael D Higgins as he begins a landmark four-day state visit to Britain.

The President, Michael D Higgins, flies to London later for the first State visit to Britain.

Today is International Women's Day and thousand of events are being held across the globe to raise awareness of female issues.

Aras an Uachtaran has confirmed that Sabina Higgins visited an elderly peace activist in Limerick jail last weekend.

A Columban priest who survived kidnapping in the Philippines was one of over 200 returned missionaries honoured at a ceremony in Dublin yesterday.

The US First Lady Michelle Obama and her daughters will arrive in Dublin today for a two-day visit.

US First Lady Michelle Obama will address a group of young Irish people this evening, who have been selected to join her and her daughters Malia,14, and Sasha,12, for a performance of Riverdance at Dublin’s Gaiety Theatre.

My earliest memory is flicking through my mum’s Hello magazines.

MICHAEL D HIGGINS has opened a “new chapter” for Ireland, saying it was time to leave behind a “failed” era of frustration, cynicism and anger.

Sabina Higgins has marked her first day as Ireland’s First Lady by supporting the local fashion industry.