“It was a beautiful day and Vincent, who is a fabulous chef, did a great job. He had a party out in the garden for the kids.”

Although Storm Ciara forced cancellation of the open-air event, EU Trade Commissioner Phil Hogan lifted spirits with a rousing speech at the formal handover of the European Capital of Culture title.

RTÉ have announced the death of broadcaster Keelin Shanley following an illness.

Caring professionals, not just billionaires, should be valued according to President Michael D Higgins.

We are at the precipice of a global ecological catastrophe and the window of opportunity to act is closing worryingly fast, the President has warned.

Tributes flooded in yesterday for “comic genius” Niall Tóibín who has died after a lengthy illness.

The President and Defence Minister have returned to Ireland after being evacuated from their hotel in Beirut yesterday.

The President and Defence Minister have been evacuated from their hotel in Beirut.

Ireland’s rock-star puppet is on a nationwide tour. Bosco talks with Donal O’Keeffe about environmentalism, Brexit and Michael D

Five hundred candles will flicker into life at a memorial service in Dublin today — one lit for each of the country’s homicide victims.

President Michael D Higgins has waded into the beef crisis by telling crowds on the first day of the National Ploughing Championships in Co Carlow that there needed to be more transparency in the price relationship between producers and farmers.

Addressing the Centenary Conference of the International Labour Organisation in Dublin, he strongly criticised the increase in precarious employment, contract working and casualisation, which he said was happening in many sectors, including aviation.

The Taoiseach does not believe President Michael D Higgins went too far in comments he made around the Defence Forces.

US vice-president Mike Pence looks set to arrive in Ireland four days ahead of originally scheduled and is now likely to land at Shannon Airport on Monday.

We take a trip down memory lane and check out what happened on this day in years gone by by looking back at some Irish Examiner front pages and highlighting other events which went down in history across the world.

The 15-year-old’s body was identified by her family, hours after it was discovered following a large-scale search operation.

Quite frankly, only the most dogged of souls will survive. And even then, the bodies will be sore for days afterwards, you would imagine.

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.

Only President Higgins and runner-up Peter Casey had expenses reimbursed.

Newly appointed US ambassador to Ireland Edward Crawford has pledged to strengthen the bonds between Ireland and America.

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

He will be participating in talks with representatives of the five political parties in the North along with Northern Secretary Karen Bradley.

Gardeners could be the “canaries in our coal mine” because they already see the effects of climate change, President Michael D Higgins said at the opening of the Bloom festival.

Polling stations across Ireland are reporting a slow and steady turnout for the local and EU elections.

Britain's Prince Charles and his wife Camilla have been welcomed to Wicklow by President Michael D Higgins.

GSOC sent 17 criminal investigation files to the DPP last year, but directions to bring charges against gardaí have so far been given in just four cases.

The first sentence in one of the earliest and most popular self-help books, The Road Less Travelled in 1978 was a banal statement of the blindingly obvious.

Today is World Press Freedom Day, an annual event to celebrate the fundamental principles of press freedom.

The 39-year-old from Co Kildare made the announcement today after he won the Punchestown Gold Cup riding Kemboy

President Michael D Higgins has led a commemoration to mark the 103rd anniversary of the Easter Rising in Dublin.

President Michael D. Higgins, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, and Minister with responsibility for Defence Paul Kehoe will lead a ceremony in Dublin today to mark the anniversary of the 1916 Rising.

The Society of St Vincent de Paul is marking its 175th anniversary in Ireland today.

Tributes have been paid to “the heartbeat” of Trócaire, Sally O’Neill Sanchez, who was killed in a car crash in Guatemala.

Twenty years after being brutally assaulted in Ireland while visiting as a 17-year-old student, Italian Guido Nasi will meet President Higgins at Áras an Uachtaráin today

The State last year splurged almost €100,000 on catering for guests to an evening State reception and a buffet celebrating President Michael D Higgins’s inauguration.

The President has unveiled a plaque to mark the birthplace of a Cork man who is revered in Venezuela as a liberator, but who remains largely anonymous here.

We want to think of it as ancient history, but it isn’t. It was unspeakable, unforgiveable, and it has to be unforgettable.

President Michael D Higgins was repeatedly attacked for his “extravagant” lifestyle and Learjet trips amid claims that he “could not lie straight in bed” over spending during tonight's high-profile presidential debate.

President Michael D Higgins’ use of the Government Learjet to an event in Belfast cost the taxpayer about €5,670.