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''President Higgins is correct, the title is The President of Ireland''

President Michael D Higgins has stood over his decision to decline an invitation to a religious s...

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17.51 17 Sep 2021


''President Higgins is correct, the title is The President of Ireland''


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17.51 17 Sep 2021


President Michael D Higgins has stood over his decision to decline an invitation to a religious service in Northern Ireland next month on the grounds that it is political in nature and commemorates the “centenary of the partition of Ireland”.

Prof. Conor O’Mahony, lecturer in Constitutional Law at UCC and Ray Bassett, former Irish Ambassador to Canada and Irish Government Representative in Belfast joined Kieran on The Hard Shoulder...

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