Sharren Haskel, who is being tipped as a possible next Israeli ambassador to the UK, spoke to The Independent in the wake of a row which erupted over Irish president Michael Higgins’ speech at a ...

Jewish groups on Monday accused Ireland’s President Michael Higgins of politicizing the Israel-Hamas war during a Holocaust remembrance speech, with the country’s chief rabbi calling his ...

open image in gallery Irish President Michael D Higgins and his wife Sabina with Holocaust survivors Suzi Diamond (left) and Tomi Reichenthal at the Mansion House in Dublin (Brian Lawless/PA ...

Michael D Higgins’s comments on ‘long-overdue ceasefire’ in Gaza are a ‘cheap, despicable provocation’, says Israel’s foreign minister Ireland’s president has been branded ...

For many years, Michael D Higgins has been a highly political president of Ireland. To a greater extent than any of his recent predecessors, the Republic’s head of state has found a way to ...