# presidency - Wednesday 17 October, 2018
Higgins has twice as many first preference votes as the rest of the candidates combined, per the latest Irish Times Ipsos/MRBI poll.
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# presidency - Thursday 4 October, 2018
Higgins has pointed out that his predecessor Mary McAleese returned the balance when she finished her two terms.
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# presidency - Tuesday 2 October, 2018
The presidential hopeful officially launched his campaign today, defending a background in business.
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# presidency - Sunday 30 September, 2018
We talked to students who support his bid for the presidency about why they intend on voting for him.
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# presidency - Tuesday 25 September, 2018
The Comptroller and Auditor General said today he had no oversight over the payment.
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# presidency - Monday 24 September, 2018
The President is now officially a candidate for re-election.
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# presidency - Tuesday 18 September, 2018
The 2018 candidates availed of every opportunity to press the flesh today.
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# presidency - Monday 17 September, 2018
Sharkey is the first person to pull out of the race.
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# presidency - Friday 14 September, 2018
The businessman has secured the backing of Waterford Council.
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# presidency - Monday 3 September, 2018
The businessman spoke at length about the 2011 controversy in Leitrim today.
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# presidency - Monday 20 August, 2018
The journalist launched her bid for the Áras yesterday
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# presidency - Tuesday 24 July, 2018
Michael D Higgins is the man to beat.
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# presidency - Thursday 28 June, 2018
Norris himself ran against Michael D Higgins in the 2011 presidential election.
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# presidency - Thursday 19 April, 2018
An election is expected to be held in October, however other candidates have been put forward to date.
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# presidency - Monday 16 April, 2018
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.
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# presidency - Wednesday 17 January, 2018
Seán Kelly MEP thinks he may have a “great opportunity” to connect with people.
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# presidency - Saturday 6 January, 2018
*That’s according to one politician who’s been tipped to run.
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# presidency - Thursday 28 December, 2017
The independent senator’s tilt at the presidency isn’t a gesture, he insists.
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# presidency - Friday 6 October, 2017
Trump must make a decision on the Iran nuclear accord by 15 October.
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# presidency - Tuesday 19 September, 2017
Higgins officially opened the National Ploughing Championships this afternoon.
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# presidency - Thursday 20 July, 2017
Three of the pivotal players in the Trump campaign will be questioned by senators next week.
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# presidency - Wednesday 3 May, 2017
Tonight’s final debate between Le Pen and presidential rival Emmanuel Macron was a spiteful affair.
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# presidency - Saturday 8 April, 2017
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.
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# presidency - Saturday 25 March, 2017
The healthcare fiasco is just the latest in a string of defeats for President Trump.
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# presidency - Thursday 9 February, 2017
Trump himself resigned as a director of the two companies operating Doonbeg last month.
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# presidency - Wednesday 8 February, 2017
Alexei Navalny was today convicted of embezzlement and given a five-year suspended sentence.
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# presidency - Wednesday 9 November, 2016
The polls didn’t see this one coming. No one saw this one coming.
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# presidency - Saturday 22 October, 2016
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?
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# presidency - Thursday 13 October, 2016
The New York Times has dismissed Trump claiming it damaged his reputation by denying he has a reputation to damage.
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# presidency - Monday 10 October, 2016
Meanwhile, the most prominent Republican in Congress, Paul Ryan, has said he can no longer continue to defend Trump.
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# presidency - Friday 19 August, 2016
Yes you read that right. In other news temperatures are forecast to be cool in hell today.
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# presidency - Wednesday 17 August, 2016
The Slovenian football chief is aiming to win September’s election.
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# presidency - Monday 15 August, 2016
A clearly irate Trump has lashed out at the media over the perceived unfairness of its coverage.
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# presidency - Sunday 24 July, 2016
Emails from senior Democrat figures appearing to disparage Bernie Sanders have given Donald Trump an easy target.
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# presidency - Tuesday 10 May, 2016
The presumptive Republican nominee has said he was “happy to see” Sadiq Khan emerge victorious in the London mayoral race.
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# presidency - Friday 6 May, 2016
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, the second most powerful politician in the US, says he is “not ready” to endorse Trump.
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# presidency - Monday 25 April, 2016
John Kasich and Ted Cruz have called it quits in an effort to bring the Trump juggernaut to a halt.
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# presidency - Wednesday 20 April, 2016
The Republican and Democrat frontrunners scored crushing victories over Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders respectively overnight.
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# presidency - Wednesday 6 April, 2016
The results serve notice that the Democrat and Republican nominations for president are far from done deals.
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# presidency - Saturday 28 November, 2015
The controversial billionaire has had a difficult week, although he’s still out in front in the race for the Republican nomination.
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