#Presidency
# presidency - Wednesday 17 October, 2018
Latest poll has Michael D Higgins with nearly twice as many votes as rest of candidates COMBINED
Higgins has twice as many first preference votes as the rest of the candidates combined, per the latest Irish Times Ipsos/MRBI poll.
# presidency - Thursday 4 October, 2018
Michael D Higgins will return €200k balance in Áras account at end of term
Higgins has pointed out that his predecessor Mary McAleese returned the balance when she finished her two terms.
# presidency - Tuesday 2 October, 2018
Gavin Duffy: 'I think seven years is long enough for anybody in any job'
The presidential hopeful officially launched his campaign today, defending a background in business.
# presidency - Sunday 30 September, 2018
Millenials for Michael D: Why young people are backing a Higgins presidency
We talked to students who support his bid for the presidency about why they intend on voting for him.
# presidency - Tuesday 25 September, 2018
Confusion reigns in PAC over 'bizarre' €317,000 annual allowance to the President
The Comptroller and Auditor General said today he had no oversight over the payment.
# presidency - Monday 24 September, 2018
Michael D Higgins has officially thrown his hat in the ring for the upcoming election
The President is now officially a candidate for re-election.
# presidency - Tuesday 18 September, 2018
No mudslinging at the Ploughing - but Sean Gallagher was waiting in the wings for Michael D
The 2018 candidates availed of every opportunity to press the flesh today.
# presidency - Monday 17 September, 2018
Kevin Sharkey pulls out of presidential race citing 'corruption', gives backing to Gemma O'Doherty
Sharkey is the first person to pull out of the race.
# presidency - Friday 14 September, 2018
Gavin Duffy 'ready to contest' presidential election after becoming fourth official candidate
The businessman has secured the backing of Waterford Council.
# presidency - Monday 3 September, 2018
'On that evening I let myself down' - Sean Gallagher addresses 'Tweetgate' on first campaign stop
The businessman spoke at length about the 2011 controversy in Leitrim today.
# presidency - Monday 20 August, 2018
Presidential hopeful Gemma O'Doherty targets independents and says Ireland is 'heading for catastrophe'
The journalist launched her bid for the Áras yesterday
# presidency - Tuesday 24 July, 2018
The next President of Ireland - ranked from most to least likely
Michael D Higgins is the man to beat.
# presidency - Thursday 28 June, 2018
'Forget ageism, it's the truth' - Norris claims 77-year-old Michael D running for second term would be ill-advised
Norris himself ran against Michael D Higgins in the 2011 presidential election.
# presidency - Thursday 19 April, 2018
Barnardos chief Fergus Finlay 'very interested' in seeking presidency if Michael D does not
An election is expected to be held in October, however other candidates have been put forward to date.
# presidency - Monday 16 April, 2018
Trump treats women 'like meat', is 'morally unfit for office' - explosive James Comey interview
Former FBI director Comey’s much-anticipated interview pulled no punches in its description of Trump, a description that has not been received well by the president.
# presidency - Wednesday 17 January, 2018
Could this be our next president?
Seán Kelly MEP thinks he may have a “great opportunity” to connect with people.
# presidency - Saturday 6 January, 2018
It's getting more and more likely that we'll have a presidential election this year*
*That’s according to one politician who’s been tipped to run.
# presidency - Thursday 28 December, 2017
'I'm not playing games - this is about winning the presidency': Craughwell expecting to secure backing for Áras run
The independent senator’s tilt at the presidency isn’t a gesture, he insists.
# presidency - Friday 6 October, 2017
'Calm before the storm' - is Trump about to abandon the Iran nuclear deal?
Trump must make a decision on the Iran nuclear accord by 15 October.
# presidency - Tuesday 19 September, 2017
President Higgins is not 'ruling anything out' when it comes to running for a second term
Higgins officially opened the National Ploughing Championships this afternoon.
# presidency - Thursday 20 July, 2017
Trump says he wouldn't have picked Sessions as Attorney General if he knew he'd recuse on Russia
Three of the pivotal players in the Trump campaign will be questioned by senators next week.
# presidency - Wednesday 3 May, 2017
Macron tells Marine Le Pen her election would lead to a French 'civil war'
Tonight’s final debate between Le Pen and presidential rival Emmanuel Macron was a spiteful affair.
# presidency - Saturday 8 April, 2017
He stopped paying his mortgage so he could sing at Trump rallies - and now he's feeling a little disillusioned
Just two months after the election, Kraig Moss, aka the Trump Troubadour, isn’t feeling quite so positive about Donald Trump as he did before.
# presidency - Saturday 25 March, 2017
People are saying this is the 'worst 100 days' of any presidency
The healthcare fiasco is just the latest in a string of defeats for President Trump.
# presidency - Thursday 9 February, 2017
Ivanka Trump steps down as director of Doonbeg golf resort
Trump himself resigned as a director of the two companies operating Doonbeg last month.
# presidency - Wednesday 8 February, 2017
Putin's main rival given suspended sentence - now he can't run against the president in the 2018 election
Alexei Navalny was today convicted of embezzlement and given a five-year suspended sentence.
# presidency - Wednesday 9 November, 2016
Couldn't stay awake? Here are the defining moments of a truly seismic US election night
The polls didn’t see this one coming. No one saw this one coming.
# presidency - Saturday 22 October, 2016
What on earth will happen if Donald Trump DOESN'T win the election?
Donald Trump seemed to be preparing for a loss by insisting the vote is rigged weeks before the election. But what effect is that having on his more incendiary supporters?
# presidency - Thursday 13 October, 2016
Michelle Obama has taken an enormous cut off Donald Trump as multiple allegations mount up
The New York Times has dismissed Trump claiming it damaged his reputation by denying he has a reputation to damage.
# presidency - Monday 10 October, 2016
24 hours after the weekend from hell, Donald Trump is in big trouble in the polls
Meanwhile, the most prominent Republican in Congress, Paul Ryan, has said he can no longer continue to defend Trump.
# presidency - Friday 19 August, 2016
Trump apologises, says he "regrets offending people" and "causing personal pain"
Yes you read that right. In other news temperatures are forecast to be cool in hell today.
# presidency - Wednesday 17 August, 2016
FAI nails its colours to the mast and backs Ceferin to replace Platini as Uefa boss
The Slovenian football chief is aiming to win September’s election.
# presidency - Monday 15 August, 2016
Trump says he's not just competing with "crooked Hillary" but the "crooked media" too
A clearly irate Trump has lashed out at the media over the perceived unfairness of its coverage.
# presidency - Sunday 24 July, 2016
Leaked Bernie Sanders emails a headache for Hillary as convention gets set to kick off
Emails from senior Democrat figures appearing to disparage Bernie Sanders have given Donald Trump an easy target.
# presidency - Tuesday 10 May, 2016
Donald Trump plans to 'make an exception' for London's new Muslim mayor
The presumptive Republican nominee has said he was “happy to see” Sadiq Khan emerge victorious in the London mayoral race.
# presidency - Friday 6 May, 2016
The most senior Republican of them all won't endorse Donald Trump
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, the second most powerful politician in the US, says he is “not ready” to endorse Trump.
# presidency - Monday 25 April, 2016
Donald Trump's rivals are teaming up to stop him getting the nomination
John Kasich and Ted Cruz have called it quits in an effort to bring the Trump juggernaut to a halt.
# presidency - Wednesday 20 April, 2016
He's almost there - Trump and Hillary have won the New York primaries decisively
The Republican and Democrat frontrunners scored crushing victories over Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders respectively overnight.
# presidency - Wednesday 6 April, 2016
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton just took a walloping in Wisconsin
The results serve notice that the Democrat and Republican nominations for president are far from done deals.
# presidency - Saturday 28 November, 2015
Support for Donald Trump's presidential bid just took a nosedive...
The controversial billionaire has had a difficult week, although he’s still out in front in the race for the Republican nomination.