U2's The Edge and owner of Dublin restaurant Chapter One, Ross Lewis, were among the people who donated to President Michael D Higgins' election campaign last year.

President Michael D Higgins will deliver a keynote address tomorrow to mark the centenary of the first sitting of the Dáil.

Irish action star Liam Neeson and former US president Barack Obama are Ireland’s favourite role model father figures beating the likes of Irish President Michael D Higgins, rugby star Johnny Sexton and The Late Late Show host Ryan Tubridy.

President Michael D Higgins has said the dream of some of the 1916 rebels has not been achieved.

President Michael D Higgins has warned about using the flood crisis as a political football.

A bill to overhaul the asylum system has been signed into law by President Higgins.

Today's meeting of the Council of State has finished.

Discrimination and prejudice against Travellers and Roma is racism, it must be named as racism and tackled as racism, President Michael D Higgins has insisted.

President Michael D Higgins will visit San Francisco to meet representatives of the arts and cultural community today.

President Michael D Higgins has called on people to reject climate change deniers.

The whizz at Greek grammar, nicknamed ‘Snowball’ by his classmates, yesterday recalled clandestine bets at the bookies, porridge without glucose and compulsory hurling on Wednesdays at his alma mater.

President Michael D Higgins was one of more than 200 guests from the worlds of politics, business and athletics to attend a Northern Ireland-themed reception tonight hosted by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle.

President Michael D Higgins begins day two of his state visit to Britain today with an event to mark the contribution of Irish people to the NHS.

President Michael D Higgins has accused international ratings agencies of putting Irish people in a “post-modern prison”.

President Michael D Higgins is set to be made a Freeman of Cork.

The Seanad has heard calls for President Michael D Higgins to pardon a 79-year-old woman who is serving a three-month prison term.

President Michael D Higgins has appointed a human rights and penal reform expert as his new advisor.