President Michael D Higgins has admitted he must be “extremely careful” about choosing his words after several of his remarks in public sparked controversy.

MUCH of the public debate in this presidential campaign has focused on the limitations of the office and to how the President is, for all intents and purposes, a political slave of the Government.

FORMER pupils of a Cork boarding school will meet in Dublin this month with the Fianna Fáil senator who used Seanad privilege to uncloak their former principal as an alleged child abuser who flouted his restricted ministry.

Charity begins at home for U2 after they forked out €5m to ensure 10,000 youngsters learn music.

U2 frontman Bono today revealed one of the big disappointments of his younger years – when a piano was taken from his grandmother’s house.

INISVICKILLANE, one of the Blasket islands, is generally known for its association with ex-Taoiseach Charlie Haughey who bought it as a holiday retreat.

BY 1990, there was a general consensus that the office of president was worthy but dull, and there was no sign of debate or discussion in the 1980s about the possibilities of expanding the role of the president or a sense that its profile could or should be increased.

Newly released State papers shed little light on the famous ‘thundering disgrace’ row writes Caroline O’Doherty.

A WORLD removed from the pomp and ceremony of Mr Haughey’s State funeral in Dublin, fishermen in Dingle yesterday bid farewell to the ex-Taoiseach in their own way.

THE Labour Party likes to spin a tale about how it single-handedly ‘transformed’ the office of the President.