Higgins a 'President for everyone'

The Presidential returning officer Ríona Ni Fhlanghaile has announced that Michael D Higgins is the President-Elect of Ireland.

The 70-year-old Galway man secured more than a million votes to become President designate.

He has been given a scroll, verified by the Chief Justice, ahead of his inauguration in Dublin Castle on November 11.

In his victory speech Michael D Higgins said he wants to be "a President for everyone, those who didn't vote and those who have left our shores".