Michael D Higgins Officially Opens The 2025 Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition In The RDS
The official opening of this years’ BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition took place yesterday with President Michael D Higgins officially welcoming 1,062 students from across the country who braved the treacherous weather conditions to present their projects to a team of 85 judges. Projects were based in areas of science, technology, engineering and math […]
President Higgins Signs Crucial Online Safety and Media Legislation into Law
President Higgins has signed the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill into law on Saturday 10th December. The OSMR Act 2022 amends the Broadcasting Act 2009 to establish Coimisiún na Meán (a multi-person Media Commission), dissolve the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, establish a regulatory framework for online safety, update the regulation of television broadcasting […]
President Higgins Becomes 1st Leader In Almost 1000 Years To Light Fire On The Hill of Uisneach
Last Saturday night President Michael D Higgins joined several thousand people from throughout Ireland and overseas on the Hill of Uisneach in Co. Westmeath where he lit the annual Bealtaine fire. He follows in the footsteps of, among others, Daniel O’Connell, Padraig Pearse and President Eamon De Valera in making an historic visit to […]
President Higgins launches groundbreaking new online English-Irish dictionary. The first since 1959
Ghost estates, cyberbullying, retweet, defriend and cloud computing are amongst the new words in the new English-Irish dictionary that President Michael D. Higgins launched today (Thursday 24 January 2013) in the National Gallery in Dublin. This is the first national online English-Irish dictionary since the publication of de Bhaldraithe’s dictionary in 1959 and is […]
President Higgins Pays Tribute to Tipperary Foróige Leaders
Foróige Leaders (volunteers) from Tipperary have been honoured by President Michael D. Higgins as part of the charity’s 60th anniversary celebrations. Speaking at the 42nd Annual Foróige Leaders’ Conference at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Dublin, President Higgins said: “In my inaugural speech, I spoke of the importance of active citizenship and I believe that […]
