Walk this way: President struts to his own beat on Grafton Street

“Who was that?” The question was posed by Brazilian busker Franklin Martins as President Michael D Higgins, his wife Sabina, and the vast media scrum surrounding him moved away.

At the top of Dublin’s Grafton St, during a rare walkabout, Sabina, under the gaze of reporters and photographers, made sure to drop a few euro into Franklin’s guitar case.