PRESIDENT HIGGINS UNDER ATTACK!

Mark Rutte

IT WAS hardly surprising that when President Michael D Higgins had the temerity, at the BT Young Scientist Exhibition, to speak out against militarisation and Nato secretary general Mark Rutte’s call for a significant increase in defence budgets, that he came in for flak. How could an elected head of state, one of whose roles… Read more »

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