President’s travel costs ‘must be made public’

Further calls have been made to make the President’s travel costs public after it was claimed that Michael D Higgins stayed in a luxury hotel at a cost of €3,000 a night.

Senator Gerard Craughwell, who had initially put himself forward to run for the Áras before bowing out, has claimed that Mr Higgins stayed in a suite in a five-star hotel in Geneva, Switzerland.