Politics Higgins raises concerns over Christmas rush of government billsPresident was previously given assurances that changes would be made to the traditional rush of legislation, but he was obliged to sign ten bills between December 14 and December 21
Creeslough Explosion in Donegal an ‘unspeakable tragedy’ – TaoiseachTen people were found dead and many injured in explosion at filling station and apartment block in Creeslough, following a search and rescue operation by a multi-agency response team
UK Queen Elizabeth II was a ‘remarkable friend of Ireland’Britain’s longest serving monarch died peacefully at her estate in Balmoral, Scotland yesterday
The Last Post Matt Cooper: Letter row raises question of whether we get ‘two for one’ when we elect a presidentIt is not unreasonable to ask if President Michael D Higgins’s wife Sabina is a proxy for views he knows he cannot express publicly
Ukraine Sabina Higgins says her Ukraine ceasefire call was made in a ‘personal capacity’President’s wife said she was ‘dismayed that people would find anything unacceptable in a plea for peace and negotiations when the future of humanity is threatened by war, global warming and famine’
Politics Lucinda Creighton: Higgins’s railing on policy issues is as predictable as it is inappropriateHis narrow constitutional role has never stopped Michael D Higgins from championing a jaded and dangerous Marxist ideology and attacking Ireland’s open, liberal economic model
The Last Post Matt Cooper: Ryanair fills seats as competitors’ Covid cost-cutting fails to pay offAirline operators are cancelling hundreds of flights and disappointing thousands of travellers as airports such as Gatwick struggle to keep check-in and baggage-handling services running. But it didn’t have to be like this
twitter Matt Cooper: Our president’s generalisations about private enterprise are not helpfulWe may not agree with Elon Musk but the reality is that he and other billionaire entrepreneurs have done a great deal to accelerate innovations to combat the climate crisis
Martin Mansergh: Higgins deserves respect for his brave and laudable decisionThe President would be put in a false position if his presence at the partition commemoration in Armagh were interpreted as a gesture of approval by the Irish state
Government fearful that Higgins controversy poses threat to relations with NorthThe President’s refusal to attend a commemoration of the 100th anniversary of partition has been described as a ‘hand grenade’ by one source within the coalition
Editorial: President was right to distance himself from partition event fiasco Historically tone deaf, the Church Leaders Group turned a ‘service of reflection’ into a political event loaded with significance
Elaine Byrne: We are now paying the price for our lack of urgency on gambling controlsThe comments by President Higgins on the proliferation of sports betting ads and the huge damage inflicted on families by gambling deserve our close attention
Family history: A missing father, a faraway war and a presidential connectionWhen Washington native Jim Nailon embarked on a DNA technology-assisted quest to find the identity of his father, an unlikely chain of events led to him having lunch with President Michael D Higgins
Radio Review: Higgins marks the end of winter with a gentle stroll through the ParkPresident Michael D Higgins chats to Sean Moncrieff about the dark days of Covid, 5km limits and the hope that comes with spring
Ireland has rare opportunity to help cause of Sahara’s ‘forgotten people’The selling out by Trump of the people of Western Sahara as pawns in a bigger game, ironically, may have boosted their cause, after years of stagnation
