Profile: Sabina Coyne Higgins

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Age:74

Appearance: stately and beaming

Newsworthiness: the presidential spouse has attracted attention by making comments on Ireland’s much-debated abortion regime

As Michael D Higgins fought for the presidency in 2011, his wife Sabina was asked what sort of presidential spouse she might make.

Her chief role, she replied, would be that of “a supporting spouse ...