President Michael D Higgins calls for 'a renewed sense of solidarity' in Christmas message
President Higgins concluded his speech by saying: 'May I wish all the Irish at home and abroad, and those who live and work with them, a very happy and peaceful Christmas and a New Year full of promise, health, and fulfillment.' Picture: Maxwell’s
President Michael D Higgins has called on the nation to remember those in the "most horrific" circumstances of war and displacement in his Christmas message for 2023.
He also said that while for many Christmas is a time of "experienced or recovered sorrow", it is also a time to "remember the vulnerabilities that should be shared, and addressed, by us all" especially those who are at risk, excluded and margninalised on the simple basis of "being perceived as different, as 'the other'."
