Leabharlann na Meán

Speech at the Diplomatic Corps 2017 New Year’s Greeting Ceremony

On Tuesday 31 January President Michael D. Higgins hosted a New Years' Greetings Ceremony for members of the Diplomatic Corp at Áras an Uachtaráin.

In his speech, the President spoke of the rapid and fundamental changes to the international system and the importance of safeguarding and defending the mechanisms for collective action to address global challenges.

Speech at the opening of an Exhibition on the Irish in Latin America

President Michael D. Higgins opened an exhibition celebrating the role of Irish immigrants in Latin America and highlighting Ireland and Latin America’s shared history of colonialism and subsequent independence and revolutionary struggles. 

The exhibition features prominent Irish figures involved in independence and revolutionary struggles across Latin America and tells the story of Irish men and women who migrated to different countries in Latin America and the Caribbean in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 

President officially opens the 2017 BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition

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