Irish President Michael D Higgins has congratulated his successor Catherine Connolly after her landslide election win. The ...

Connolly, 68, said she would champion diversity and be a voice for peace, one that “builds on our policy of neutrality.” ...

Fine Gael's Heather Humphreys has congratulated Catherine Connolly who is set to become the next president of Ireland.

Ultimately, Fine Gael has no one to blame for this but itself. It had a respectable candidate, but it did not run a good ...

Sectarian abuse is “never acceptable”, the leader of Sinn Fein has said after a presidential candidate said she was subjected ...

At the outset of Catherine Connolly’s campaign, she spoke about a movement – if this idea initially felt hypothetical, it ...

There's a clear frustration at the lack of candidates in the Presidential Election, with spoiled votes taking up a large ...

The left-wing candidate secured 63.4% of the vote, edging her rival Heather Humphreys of Fine Gael, the centrist ruling party ...

The fallout from this result will reverberate for a considerable time, particularly for the losers, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael ...

In total, there were 213,738 spoiled votes in this election, which is a tenfold increase on the number of spoiled votes in ...

Dublin: Left wing independent Catherine Connolly on Saturday won the race to be Ireland s new president, comfortably beating ...