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Speech at a reception for Team Ireland Rio 2016

Members of Team Ireland who competed at the 2016 Rio Olympics were being honoured at a special reception hosted by President Michael D. Higgins and his wife Sabina Higgins.

President Higgins invited the athletes and their coaches to Áras an Uachtaráin to personally congratulate them on their achievements at the Olympic Games and on their role as representatives of Ireland on the international sporting stage.

For details see http://www.president.ie/en/diary/details/president-hosts-a-reception-for-team-ireland-rio-2016

Morning Ireland -Diarmaid Ferriter on President’s speech at Béal na mBláth commemoration

President Michael D. Higgins became the first serving President of Ireland to deliver the oration at the annual Béal na mBláth Commemoration.

The event takes place each year on the Sunday closest to August 22nd, the day in 1922 when General Michael Collins, commander-in-chief of the Irish army, was killed in an ambush during the Civil War. 

President Higgins' oration took place in the year that Ireland marks the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising, when Collins was aide de camp to Joseph Plunkett in the GPO.

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