Higgins: Heaney's 'contribution to humanity was immense'

Seamus Heaney and President Michael D Higgins at a ceremony at UCC to mark the acquisition by of the modern manuscript The Great Book of Ireland, Leabhar Mór na hÉireann..

President Michael D Higgins has paid tribute to Seamus Heaney on the news of his death saying the poet's contribution “to the republics of letters, conscience, and humanity was immense”.