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.” ...

Left-wing independent Catherine Connolly, who secured the backing of Ireland's left-leaning parties including Sinn Féin, has ...

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

The veteran Left-winger Catherine Connolly was elected as Ireland’s new president, winning by a landslide margin after her ...

Fine Gael argued that it was “always going to require” both coalition parties running “viable candidates” who would transfer ...

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

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

Ironically, the increased turnout was helped by highly motivated online campaigns from various groups mobilising the ...

The Government received a monumental two-fingered salute at the ballot box this weekend as unprecedented numbers spoiled ...