Irish Examiner view: The Higgins letter row rumbles on

President Michael D Higgins and his wife Sabina Higgins: Comments construed as political.

Every time President Michael D Higgins and his wife Sabina, say something which can be construed as political, there is a hubbub.

Firstly, it was the President’s observations about Ireland’s acute housing crisis, and now Mrs Higgins’ comments in a letter to the Irish Times that the war in Ukraine can only be settled by negotiation, an intervention quickly seized upon by Russia’s Dublin ambassador and megaphone Yury Filatov.