A successful visit, but don't forget the North

The visit of President Michael D Higgins to Britain might have lacked the historical weight of Queen Elizabeth's 2011 journey to Ireland, but it was a roaring success all the same.

It was especially important to the huge Irish community in Britain, who have - like their emigrant cousins in the US - been ignored as an integral part of the Irish nation for too long. President Higgins's visit to an NHS hospital, ...