The media are awaiting the arrival of Catherine Connolly at Dublin Castle where she'll be officially declared as Ireland's ...

As the election approached, veterans such as former taoiseach Bertie Ahern and ex-minister Mary Hanafin were knocking on the ...

Catherine Connolly, an independent who was backed by the major left-wing parties, pledges to be "an inclusive president for ...

Follow the latest here on the Irish Independent’s ‘Race to the Áras’ live blog Catherine Connolly: I will represent you to the best of my ability Follow the latest developments in our live blog: ' ...

Sinn Féin is hoping to “find a way” for transfers between left-leaning parties in the by-election triggered by the next ...

Fianna Fáil needs a new leader "in the not too distant future", one of the party's TDs has said. TD for Carlow-Kilkenny John McGuinness said the party made "serious errors" in the presidential ...

The left-wing winner replaces Michael D Higgins, a popular poet and former arts minister, who has served the maximum two ...

Independent candidate Catherine Martina Ann Connolly has officially been elected the 10th president of Ireland, with a ...

Taoiseach Micheál Martin backpedaled on claims he would not be attending Catherine Connolly's official presidential ...

Members of the parliamentary party have now questioned how the review into the party’s botched Jim Gavin campaign is progressing ...

Spokespeople for Micheál Martin confirmed that the Taoiseach would not be in Dublin Castle, where the national results will ...