There wasn’t a hint of past enmities when the President and the president-elect met in the Áras for the first time, where they posed briefly for pictures before a private lunch on Wednesday afternoon.
Michael D Higgins, accompanied by his wife Sabina, shared a warm embrace with Catherine Connolly, accompanied by her husband Brian McEnery, ahead of her inauguration as the 10th president of Ireland on November 11th.
While they have had a famously frosty relationship after falling out in the Galwa
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