Higgins will discover new freedom

WHAT sort of President for the Áras will we have next month?

As things stand, a positive Houdini will be needed to slide, slip, clip or break through the tangles of gombeen opportunism and complacency that have little by little caught Ireland in a stranglehold. Our Constitution purports to promote the common good — instead we are reduced to bankruptcy and our sovereignty taken away.

Can Michael D Higgins reclaim our Republic?