Michael D should sympathise with the protesters and be a people’s president

“Did he not have a constitutionally powerful tool at his disposal ? He also had the choice to resign rather than sign it.”

That is Helen Breathnach’s (Irish Examiner, Letters, January 30) perspective on President Michael D Higgins and the recent furore over ‘presidential protesting’.

Trawling through Higgins’s own protesting CV, she presses the president on his options vis-a-vis signing-off on the water-charges bill.