Sharren Haskel, who is being tipped as a possible next Israeli ambassador to the UK, spoke to The Independent in the wake of a row which erupted over Irish president Michael Higgins’ speech at a ...

open image in gallery Irish President Michael D Higgins and his wife Sabina with Holocaust survivors Suzi Diamond (left) and Tomi Reichenthal at the Mansion House in Dublin (Brian Lawless/PA ...

They included Victor Boudreau, a longtime Liberal, Rodger Cuzner, a former Cape Breton MP and John McNair, a former provincial Liberal chief of staff. Despite the advisory board being ...

For many years, Michael D Higgins has been a highly political president of Ireland. To a greater extent than any of his recent predecessors, the Republic’s head of state has found a way to ...