#michael d higgins

[splittheganthony]

“Who are your dream guests for a lock in?”

(For Michael D’s last day in office 🥹❤️)

[on-a-lucky-tide]

"Real men are over six foot."

Them: Hold my beer.

[worm-infestation]

simon fairchild kinda reminds me of michael d higgins. i feel like they cpuld be friends

[eimiandcoffee]

Go raibh míle maith agat Uachtarán na hÉireann Michael D Higgins 💚🤍🧡

Cronófar go mór é

[girlactionfigure]

How am I as a Jew being kicked out of my own event?

Lior Tibet, a history PhD student in UCD who is originally from Israel, was forcibly removed from the Holocaust Memorial Day event in Dublin's Mansion House on January 26th, 2025. She, along with a number of other protesters, turned her back on President Michael D Higgins during his keynote speech to the event.

[k00330146]

Consumption and production of personal connections through letters, postcards, and stamps

I had this idea to document my day to day and what’s going on in my life. Like what you would include in the contents of a letter but visually. Currently the presidential election is huge for Ireland! And so I thought of making a piece with Michel D.higgins shaking the hands of Catherine Connolly our 10th president of Ireland.

For the stamps I was going to make a Michael D. Higgins shaking the hand of Catherine Connolly. Also links to consumption and production of my life as an Irish person.

This would be done on maybe an envelope with their outline of their body shapes using Irish stamps and Irish words! As well as the Irish flag and the harp looking now into the sketchbook! Printing some Irish stamps and recording them and today I drew the concepts out in my sketchbook and will continue to explore more.

The workshop I have chosen for next week is book making and I have so many ideas for this which I want to explore further in my sketchbook as well as maybe printmaking and painting again! Looking to also use different mediums that I like for example cardboard. And I think this workshop would be great as it incorporates so many different mediums to experiment with!

[eretzyisrael]

All the world's a stage, and Ireland stands exposed upon it - Gript

Another questionable outing for El Presidente.

by John McGuirk

From time to time, I get asked by readers why it is, exactly, that I spend so much time writing about official Ireland’s attitudes towards Israel.

There’s a personal answer to that question (I’ve been to Israel, have friends there, find it to be a wonderful and welcoming country where people live cheerfully even in the knowledge that there are constant plots to kill them) and there’s an substantially more important political answer: That Irish attitudes to Israel are a marker for so much else that’s wrong about the country.

The first thing I’d say is that no issue more clearly sums up the entirely performative nature of Irish politics, in which our dear leaders prance about on the stage playing at being the “goodie” in a pantomime. For example: How many times this week have we heard, solemnly, from our leaders that Ireland is committed to international law and human rights? 

And how many times, dear reader, have you heard that lie – and it is a blatant lie – challenged by the Irish media?

This is, of course, the very same Ireland that literally rolled out the red-carpet last year for the visit of the Chinese Premier, while that Government perpetrates what actually is an internationally recognised genocide against the Uigher people.

It’s the same country that sends Ministers every Saint Patrick’s day to Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, where women are routinely whipped for alleged adultery, which includes being raped by a man other than their husbands. It’s the same country where the party of the official opposition used to import guns from then Libyan dictator Muamar Gaddaffi in order to murder British (and Irish) civilians.

Indeed, the President who took to his rostrum yesterday to spew more invective against the Israeli Government, and to criticise the alleged extra-territorial ambitions of Israel, is called Michael D. Higgins. He bears, not coincidentally, the same name as the Irish President who just some months ago wished his very best in their endeavours to an Iranian regime that has infringed on the sovereignty of Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Iraq in recent years, and which openly exports arms to terror groups right across the Middle East.

He’s the same Michael D. Higgins also who extolled in the most poetic terms the late and apparently missed Cuban dictator, Fidel Castro. That’s the fellow spluttering barely coherent outrage about the apparent fact that the Israelis might think we were unfairly singling them out for criticism.

This rank performative nonsense – which is what it is – is not confined to the international arena.

Our Taoiseach is an actor. He acts, and poses, as a man of great activity and ambition.

He stands before us, tears in his eyes like a melodramatic republican-era Roman stageman of yore, telling us five years ago that he would solve the crisis of children unable to access Scoliosis surgery. He signs contracts for a children’s hospital, then pretends to be blameless for their contents. He talks a great game about leading the fight against climate change but knows full well his country can do nothing about it. It is all a performance; a man play-acting at power and influence who neither has it nor would know how to wield it if he had.

[nathancable]

What a leaving speech and video from a MUCH beloved president.

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