Analysis

Lucinda Creighton: Higgins has no legitimacy lecturing the government about foreign policy, peace or neutrality

The President seems to have a growing disdain for experts who might confront his own archaic, Marxist political bias – it’s about time the government challenged his hugely damaging political posturing

President Michael D Higgins: his simplistic, personalised and patently partisan criticism of the Consultative Forum on International Security Policy, was neither intellectual nor thoughtful

Like the former US President Donald Trump, Ireland’s President Michael D Higgins appears to be overcome by a growing disdain for experts, who might present evidence-based facts or analysis which he dislikes or which confront his own political bias. Higgins’ dislike of certain experts also chimes with the phenomenon in Britain which ultimately led to Brexit, whereby prominent political figures such as prime minister Boris Johnson and cabinet minister Michael Gove derided experts whose views ...