Ireland looks set to elect a veteran independent left-wing lawmaker backed by the main opposition parties as president on ...

A third candidate, Jim Gavin, 54, dropped out of the race in early October over an unpaid debt to a former tenant. Though he ...

Ireland will elect a new president this week, and it is guaranteed to be a woman. This will be the third time the country has ...

The Presbyterian Church has asked congregations in the Republic to pray for both Irish presidential candidates and vote in ...

Heather Humphreys, one of two people vying to be Ireland's next president, says she's "well placed" to speak to unionists.

A Humphreys victory would not entirely be a first, however. Indeed, the very first president of Ireland, Douglas Hyde, was ...

Catherine Connolly has a significant leader over Heather Humphreys in the polls but these elections are notoriously ...

Former Tory politician on his new novel End Game and - to the chagrin of his publisher - his secret final novel out next year ...

Ireland elected nine presidents since the office was founded in 1938, with five of them successfully elected to a second term ...

Micheal Martin, Ireland’s taoiseach and Fianna Fail leader, hand-picked Mr Gavin, a hugely successful Gaelic football manager ...

Irish farmer and civil society activist Séamus Boland has been elected as president of the European Economic and Social ...

A couple of years ago, Philip faced a deep injustice when there were those who took away from him what he loved most, and did ...