# michael-d-higgins - Thursday 16 May, 2013
The short story was written by Dublin teenager Eoin Moore.
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# michael-d-higgins - Sunday 5 May, 2013
Some believe the president has overstepped the remit of his office by criticising EU austerity policies in an interview with the Financial Times.
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# michael-d-higgins - Thursday 2 May, 2013
The Tánaiste says Ireland’s model has always been to cut costs, while also increasing investment to encourage growth.
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President Higgins says the EU is facing a “moral crisis” as much as an economic one: “You are either a union or you’re not.”
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# michael-d-higgins - Wednesday 1 May, 2013
We produce enough food for 10 times our population, but the horsemeat scandal shows just how inequality has forced people to low-price, low-quality food, writes Richard Manton.
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# michael-d-higgins - Tuesday 30 April, 2013
Higgins was speaking at the National Museum of Ireland to mark the conservation of the original Starry Plough Flag, once used by the Irish Citizen Army.
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# michael-d-higgins - Saturday 20 April, 2013
Addressing the annual conference of the SVP, he said that Ireland had “failed so frequently” to adopt policies that were good for its citizens.
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# michael-d-higgins - Thursday 18 April, 2013
Happy birthday, Michael D!
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# michael-d-higgins - Wednesday 17 April, 2013
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
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In an address to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, Higgins said citizens placed their trust in elected members and they must act in their best interests.
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President Higgins warned of the ‘urgent need for new models of connection between economy, society and policy’.
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# michael-d-higgins - Tuesday 16 April, 2013
President Michael D Higgins has issued a brief statement offering thoughts to the people of Boston after today’s explosions at the city’s marathon.
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# michael-d-higgins - Monday 15 April, 2013
The deal was signed during the opening day of a major international conference focussing on climate change, hunger and poor nutrition.
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# michael-d-higgins - Friday 12 April, 2013
Shelbourne are hosting Drogheda United in Drumcondra tonight.
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# michael-d-higgins - Monday 8 April, 2013
The President said he was “sorry to learn of the death of Lady Thatcher” and extended his condolences to her family.
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# michael-d-higgins - Friday 5 April, 2013
The association provides safe, friendly and inclusive environments for men from all walks of life to gather and work on projects.
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# michael-d-higgins - Wednesday 13 March, 2013
World leaders have been sending their congratulations to the new pontiff.
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# michael-d-higgins - Wednesday 6 March, 2013
The Script, Bono, Christy Moore and Seamus Heaney will be among the artists performing on ‘Glaoch’ on March 17.
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Good morning. Here are nine things to know as you start your day.
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Reaction from world leaders to the death of the Venezuelan president yesterday has been mixed.
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# michael-d-higgins - Tuesday 26 February, 2013
Michael D Higgins already voluntarily cut his pay by 23.5 per cent to just under €250,000 in 2011 but Áras an Uachtaráin will not say whether he would take a further pay cut.
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# michael-d-higgins - Friday 22 February, 2013
The president became the second person ever awarded the Freedom of the town – the other recipient was Muhammad Ali.
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# michael-d-higgins - Tuesday 19 February, 2013
Lovely weather they’re having in France….
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# michael-d-higgins - Monday 18 February, 2013
Michael D Higgins met with French president Francois Hollande, and launched an exhibition of the work of Eileen Gray.
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The President will meet with his French counterpart, Francois Hollande, later today.
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# michael-d-higgins - Monday 11 February, 2013
Enda Kenny clashed with the Catholic Church in the last two years, slamming the “the dysfunction, the disconnection, the elitism that dominates the Vatican today” after the Cloyne report in 2011.
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# michael-d-higgins - Thursday 7 February, 2013
The President returned from his official visit to Rome yesterday to sign the emergency legislation.
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TDs voted by 113 votes to 35 to wind down the former Anglo, laying off its employees with immediate effect.
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Watch live from the Seanad Chamber as members deliberate on whether to immediately wind down the former Anglo.
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Here’s the total voting chart for how the Dáil divided on its final decision to liquidate the former Anglo Irish Bank.
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Catch up with text commentary from the Dáil as TDs voted to wind up the former Anglo.
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# michael-d-higgins - Wednesday 6 February, 2013
The government wants to issue long-term bonds to get rid of the IBRC promissory notes. What do you think?
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Michael D Higgins has interrupted a trip to Italy to make himself available if the Oireachtas passes an IBRC bill tonight.
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The President will meet with officials in Rome as well as visiting some historic sites with Irish connections.
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# michael-d-higgins - Saturday 26 January, 2013
The President and opposition politicians have joined the Taoiseach in expressing their shock and sadness at the killing of Adrian Donohoe last night.
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# michael-d-higgins - Wednesday 23 January, 2013
The billionaire Microsoft founder was visiting to discuss development aid priorities for Ireland’s EU Presidency.
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# michael-d-higgins - Tuesday 22 January, 2013
The Microsoft founder and philanthropist is also reported to be meeting Bono on his visit to Ireland tomorrow.
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# michael-d-higgins - Thursday 17 January, 2013
The Great Book of Ireland (Leabhar Mór na hÉireann) has been bought by the college for $1 million.
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# michael-d-higgins - Friday 21 December, 2012
Both pieces of legislation will now go to President Michael D Higgins to be signed into law.
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Fear of reporting sexual assaults is ‘shameful indictment’, says Higgins
On International Women’s Day, the President tells an audience at Áras an Úachtaráin that Ireland must support assault victims more.
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