Latest: Michael D. Higgins congratulates Nobel Peace Prize winners

Latest: The President of Ireland has sent congratulations on behalf of the people of Ireland to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons on winning the Nobel Peace Prize 2017.

Update 5.27pm: The President of Ireland has sent congratulations on behalf of the people of Ireland to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons on winning the Nobel Peace Prize 2017.

Michael D. Higgins said this will have enlarged the hope that those opposed to nuclear weapons got with the recent vote by 122 countries of the United Nations in favour of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.