Politics
President ‘setting a dangerous precedent’ with political comments, warns top academic
Professor David Farrell says ‘disingenuous’ Michael D needs to be ‘reined in’ over his political utterances
One of Ireland’s leading political academics has called for President Michael D Higgins to be “reined in” over his increasingly political comments.
David Farrell, the full professor of politics at UCD, and son of legendary academic and broadcaster, the late Brian Farrell, accused Higgins on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, of “setting a dangerous precedent”.
“The President may say things that people like but that should not excuse the fact that ...
