A few years into Michael D Higgins’s presidency, I was asked to write a profile of the man. I spent weeks speaking to people who worked with him or who had some insight into his life or his thinking. I read the speeches, listened back to his interviews and trawled the archives. The result was a snapshot of a president still finding his feet, flourishing in some aspects of the role and struggling with others, just a few years into what would become - owing to th
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