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Michael D Higgins

Politics

Higgins raises concerns over Christmas rush of government bills

President was previously given assurances that changes would be made to the traditional rush of legislation, but he was obliged to sign ten bills between December 14 and December 21
  • Michael Brennan
  • December 23, 2022
Creeslough

Explosion in Donegal an ‘unspeakable tragedy’ – Taoiseach

Ten people were found dead and many injured in explosion at filling station and apartment block in Creeslough, following a search and rescue operation by a multi-agency response team
  • Donal MacNamee
  • October 8, 2022
UK

Queen Elizabeth II was a ‘remarkable friend of Ireland’

Britain’s longest serving monarch died peacefully at her estate in Balmoral, Scotland yesterday
  • Donal MacNamee
  • September 8, 2022
The Last Post

Matt Cooper: Letter row raises question of whether we get ‘two for one’ when we elect a president

It is not unreasonable to ask if President Michael D Higgins’s wife Sabina is a proxy for views he knows he cannot express publicly
  • Matt Cooper
  • August 6, 2022
Ukraine

Sabina Higgins says her Ukraine ceasefire call was made in a ‘personal capacity’

President’s wife said she was ‘dismayed that people would find anything unacceptable in a plea for peace and negotiations when the future of humanity is threatened by war, global warming and famine’
  • Michael Brennan
  • August 2, 2022
Politics

Lucinda Creighton: Higgins’s railing on policy issues is as predictable as it is inappropriate

His narrow constitutional role has never stopped Michael D Higgins from championing a jaded and dangerous Marxist ideology and attacking Ireland’s open, liberal economic model
  • Lucinda Creighton
  • June 18, 2022
The Last Post

Matt Cooper: Ryanair fills seats as competitors’ Covid cost-cutting fails to pay off

Airline operators are cancelling hundreds of flights and disappointing thousands of travellers as airports such as Gatwick struggle to keep check-in and baggage-handling services running. But it didn’t have to be like this
  • Matt Cooper
  • June 18, 2022
twitter

Matt Cooper: Our president’s generalisations about private enterprise are not helpful

We may not agree with Elon Musk but the reality is that he and other billionaire entrepreneurs have done a great deal to accelerate innovations to combat the climate crisis
  • Matt Cooper
  • May 7, 2022

Martin Mansergh: Higgins deserves respect for his brave and laudable decision

The President would be put in a false position if his presence at the partition commemoration in Armagh were interpreted as a gesture of approval by the Irish state
  • Martin Mansergh
  • September 19, 2021

Government fearful that Higgins controversy poses threat to relations with North

The President’s refusal to attend a commemoration of the 100th anniversary of partition has been described as a ‘hand grenade’ by one source within the coalition
  • Daniel Murrayand
  • Michael Brennan
  • September 19, 2021

Editorial: President was right to distance himself from partition event fiasco

Historically tone deaf, the Church Leaders Group turned a ‘service of reflection’ into a political event loaded with significance
  • Business Post
  • September 19, 2021

Elaine Byrne: We are now paying the price for our lack of urgency on gambling controls

The comments by President Higgins on the proliferation of sports betting ads and the huge damage inflicted on families by gambling deserve our close attention
  • Elaine Byrne
  • July 18, 2021

Family history: A missing father, a faraway war and a presidential connection

When Washington native Jim Nailon embarked on a DNA technology-assisted quest to find the identity of his father, an unlikely chain of events led to him having lunch with President Michael D Higgins
  • Michael Brennan
  • May 30, 2021

Radio Review: Higgins marks the end of winter with a gentle stroll through the Park

President Michael D Higgins chats to Sean Moncrieff about the dark days of Covid, 5km limits and the hope that comes with spring
  • Sara Keating
  • February 7, 2021

Ireland has rare opportunity to help cause of Sahara’s ‘forgotten people’

The selling out by Trump of the people of Western Sahara as pawns in a bigger game, ironically, may have boosted their cause, after years of stagnation
  • Colin Murphy
  • December 20, 2020

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