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11 Nov 2018
“Muintir na hÉireann, I thank you again from my heart. This is your presidency and I will work for you and with you towards a future of equality, participation, inclusion, imagination, creativity, and sustainability.“ Michael D Higgins #APresidentForUsAll
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11 Nov 2018
“Muintir na hÉireann, I thank you again from my heart. This is your presidency and I will work for you and with you towards a future of equality, participation, inclusion, imagination, creativity, and sustainability.“ Michael D Higgins #APresidentForUsAll
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11 Nov 2018
“It is Together that we go forward. As lámha a chéile a mhairimíd.” #APresidentforUsAll
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11 Nov 2018
“It is important that we seek to reach always for the best of ourselves, and the best of what we might become, and that we allow that to guide our collective ambition for our country.” Michael D Higgins #APresidentForUsAll
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Michael D Higgins retweeted
11 Nov 2018
Taoiseach - As we approach the centenary of the first Dáil I believe we are fortunate to have someone with the values of @michaeldhiggins as president. @PresidentIRL @campaignforleo #inauguration
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11 Nov 2018
“Empathy can and must inform our relations with neighbours near and far.” Michael D Higgins #APresidentForUsAll
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Michael D Higgins retweeted
11 Nov 2018
Uachtarán @michaeldhiggins - signs the declaration read to him by the Chief Justice and receives his Presidential seal of office.
#inauguration
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11 Nov 2018
“Young people have rejected cynicism, have chosen political engagement, the public world and have chosen to be agents of ethical change, to make the possibilities of hope a reality.” Michael D Higgins #APresidentForUsAll
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11 Nov 2018
“The good news is that here in Ireland our rising generation of the young are interested in these issues. Tá fís nua á lorg acu. They are moving past models of insatiable consumption and are forging different paths to personal and collective fulfilment.” Michael D Higgins
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11 Nov 2018
“We need to start taking responsibility, sharing capacities. Far from being abstract challenges, the consequences of neglect are already manifest.“ Michael D Higgins #APresidentForUsAll
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11 Nov 2018
“They can be seen in the damage to the natural world and the price being paid by the poorest people on our fragile planet, those least responsible for the perilous state to which inadequate and imbalanced models of development have brought us.” #APresidentForUsAll
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“We face many challenges which go beyond borders, require cooperation at global level and affect the lives of every person in every local place.” Michael D Higgins #APresidentForUsAll
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11 Nov 2018
“At a time when democratic discourse is too often undermined or diminished, our choice must be to actively extend and deepen democracy, to express it in wider forms and in new ways.” Michael D Higgins #APresidentForUsAll
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11 Nov 2018
“In offering a vision for the next seven years I spoke of a real republic as being a life lived together, one where there is a commitment to equality, to strong sustainable communities, to the sharing of history and to shaping of the future” Michael D Higgins #APresidentForUsAll
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11 Nov 2018
“Níl aon onóir níos mó ná bheith tofa mar Uachtarán na hÉireann. Innú glacaim leis na dualgaisí arís ach leis an fuinneamh is eolas breise atá faighte agam ón seirbhís atá tugtha agam mar Uachtarán.” Michael D Higgins #APresidentForUsAll
ALT Michael D Higgins delivers his inauguration speech
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11 Nov 2018
President @MichaelDHiggins receiving the seal of office #APresidentForUsAll
ALT President Michael D Higgins receiving the seal of office
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11 Nov 2018
This evening in Dublin Castle, President Michael D. Higgins will be inaugurated as President of Ireland for the next seven years. #APresidentForUsAll
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Michael D Higgins retweeted
11 Nov 2018
President Michael D Higgins recognises ‘our common humanity’ as he marks #Armistice100 - @IrishTimes
irishtimes.com/news/ireland/…
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10 Nov 2018
With your support, President Michael D. Higgins was re-elected for a second term, winning 56% of the vote – the largest number of first preference votes ever in a Presidential election in Ireland. The inauguration will take place tomorrow. #apresidentforusall
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5 Nov 2018
Michael D Higgins said there was an opportunity to define a “real participatory republic” with values of sustainability, in a world where it was “not inevitable” that thousands of people should die daily of hunger. #APresidentForUsAll irishtimes.com/news/politics…
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29 Oct 2018
“A real Republic is one where every person is encouraged and supported to participate fully and where every person and community is treated with dignity and respect.” #PresidentMichaelDHiggins
- Michael D Higgins’s acceptance speech in full irishtimes.com/news/politics…
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