Hypocritical of Higgins to visit the homeless

Wasn’t it outrageously hypocritical of President Michael D Higgins to visit homeless families in Dublin?

Here is a man on a salary of €250,000 a year, living free in a vast, multi-roomed mansion, with servants and drivers at his beck and call, trying to console, with mere rhetoric, those who have nothing and who have been abandoned by the State which Higgins represents.

What was achieved by his visit, apart from highlighting the great divide between those who are cushioned by the State and those on the margins looking in?

As a nation, we have lost our sense of outrage that a charade like this goes on with little or no media comment?

Perhaps if President Higgins opened up his mansion, and his kitchens, to some of these unfortunates whom he met, we might be somewhat more impressed.

John Leahy

Wilton Road

Cork