Alison O'Connor: Presidential couple can’t keep testing outer limits of the office

Both President Higgins and his wife are fully aware of the constraints that apply to speaking out on such issues

President Michael D Higgins and his wife Sabina. Picture: Sam Boal/RollingNews.ie

In the midst of the significant diplomatic fallout caused by those high-profile remarks from Sabina Higgins on the war in Ukraine there may be some solace for the Government.

Perhaps for the foreseeable future, the Higgins’s of Dublin 8 will have had their cough softened as to constitutional parameters and remain within the constraints of the office, as they are supposed to do.