PRESIDENT’S UNCIVIL LINE ON CENTENARIES

President Higgins

THE LOOMNG centenaries of the Treaty and Civil War are causing tremors among various politicians, especially those in Fine Gael and especially also because of President Higgins’s trenchant views on these issues. Irish Times political editor Pat Leahy fretted last weekend about these events being the “difficult” parts of the decade of commemorations; how Higgins’s own… Read more »