Eamon Ryan said the use of the word "pernicious" by President Higgins was appropriate.

It was meant to be Harry and Meghan’s moment but their spotlight was very nearly stolen by another audacious couple.

It was meant to be Harry and Meghan’s moment but their spotlight was very nearly stolen by another audacious couple.

In hindsight, maybe they should have just asked for Dáil translation headphones.

President Michael D Higgins yesterday recalled the snugs of the pubs his father ran in his childhood days in Limerick City.

Pressure is mounting on the Government to launch a full inquiry into claims of a mass baby grave in Galway, after President Michael D Higgins said he was "appalled" at reports about the site and that questions needed to beanswered.

THE significance of President Michael D Higgins dining in state at Windsor castle last night is that it is the culmination of British recognition of Irish independence. It is also a full recognition of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Former president Mary Robinson said “the Irish story will be well told” during this week’s state visit to Britain by President Michael D Higgins, and “it will be a positive one”.

Tune into RTE One at 11.05pm tonight for Dear Daughter, a drama documentary telling the true story of a girl's search for her parents and her horrific life in an orphanage.

WHAT would President Michael D Higgins say to his 30-year-old self? “Well, kiddo, you’ll be glad to know that I’m still a socialist. Unlike most others who start out wanting to reshape the world, my idealism has survived the ravages of aging.

“Europe is therefore more than an economic space of contestation in which our citizens are invited or required to deliver up their lives in the service of an abstract model of economy and society whose core assumptions they may not question or put to democratic test in elections.”

President Michael D Higgins has been made a freeman of a town he used to reach by cycling eight miles every morning during his schooldays.

To mark St Patrick’s Day, Enda Kenny will travel across the US this weekend. From Chicago, to Indiana and on to New York, he will arrive in Washington on Monday night for a dinner hosted by the American Ireland Fund.