It was obviously too much for him to criticise anything to do with the Religion of Peace so he invented some spurious wittering about climate change.
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2022/0613/1304483-higgins-nigeria/
I've been perfectly civil. You're taking offence to being told you're wrong. You set your stall out lining up with all the posters spilling bilge about the President's private affairs, and then hilariously think an impeachment of the President off the back of his utterances the other day is in the realms of reality.
He owns three properties.
Two houses and an apartment as far as I’m aware.
Just thought I’d put that in there seems talk of him only owning two houses is been discussed.
OUTGOING PRESIDENT MICHAEL D HIGGINS HAS REFUSED TO SAY IF ANY OF HIS UNAUDITED €317,000 PRESIDENTIAL ALLOWANCE WAS SPENT ON PERSONAL GIFTS OR WARDROBE ITEMS.
MR HIGGINS INSISTS THE UNAUDITED ALLOWANCE WAS PROPERLY SPENT – BUT WON’T RELEASE STATEMENTS DETAILING THIS EXPENDITURE UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTION.
LAST WEEK, WHEN THE ALLOWANCE WAS REVEALED AT THE PAC, THE IRISH MAIL ON SUNDAY ASKED MR HIGGINS IF IT HAD FUNDED SALARIES OR TOP- UPS FOR ADVISERS.
SINCE THEN MR HIGGINS HAS ANGRILY DENIED THAT ADVISERS’ SALARIES WERE PAID FROM THE FUND – AND REFUSES TO REVEAL IF IT WAS USED TO PURCHASE GIFTS OR WARDROBE ITEMS.
HE HAS ALSO NOT FULLY EXPLAINED HOW THE SALARY OF ADVISER KEVIN MCCARTHY WAS INITIALLY PUT IN PLACE, AND ACCOUNTED FOR.
SPOKESMAN FOR THE PRESIDENCY HANS ZOMER, TOLD THE MOS: ‘I HAVE NOTHING TO ADD AT THIS STAGE.’
He sold the investment property. That's what the song and dance earlier in the thread was about.
Family home in Galway, and an apartment in Dublin.
Two house Michael they call him. The talk of the town. A very obsessive town that is.
Sorry haven’t read the whole thread.
Not a bad haul for a “socialist” right enough
What's the fuss about?
Lot's of us own more than one house.
Why would owning two houses or more preclude one from speaking about housing policy?
A man of the people.
Like Mick Wallace.
All is forgiven once they are criticising the government.
Ah sure aren’t they cute hoors….
If he lived on the side of a ditch they'd have a problem with him.
It's nowt to do with houses really.
Higgins is a landlord who evicted some students so that he could sell the house to avail of a tax break. That's what the newspaper report said. It doesn't show Higgins in a good light. The hypocrisy of it is staggering. And yet there are people who still support him.
Regards...jmcc
Read the thread. His multiple property wealth isn’t the issue. It’s his rank hypocrisy that is.
His poetry is as bad as Tupacs.
I cant wait until we have a new president, Casey should have won.
I have followed it from the start and posted several comments.
There seems to be a lot of focus on property.
Are you saying the property owning isn't connected to the spurious hypocrisy charge at all?
They were students.
Galway is a university city.
The students will have long since moved on.
When they get on in their chose professions they will use whatever tax breaks are available to them.
The newspaper report (the Sunday Times article by Mark Tighe) indicated the students were given the satutory notice as required by the law. When the students said they were having difficulty sourcing an alternative rental, a further 4 months was given to them in-situ in the property.
Doesn't exactly sound like a famine cottage eviction supervised by the RIC does it?
People are allowed to sell their property, and he gave them four months over-and-above the statutory notice period.
Make your criticisms by all means. But I don't see how the above casts him in a bad light, unless you're determined to cast him in a bad light because of political pecadillos.
EDIT: The same article indicates his daughter lives in the Dublin apartment, in case anyone is tempted to start pulling the threads on that property.
Mate,he is out critising the failures of housing at opening of a homeless hostel for youth while happy enough to profit off housing/evicting other young people himself
He is undoubtfully a passionate,articulate,and represents many fine attributes (voted for him meself last time out),along side a long long career in politics,
but its fairly open/shut case,thats he's a hypocrite after the messing about with that galway house,he didnt/desont need the money...we need start looking after next coming generations and not running to defend already rich politians/business people
Tupac was a better prosodist though.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/landlords-critic-president-higgins-rents-out-house-for-over-2-000-w2jmcmfdg
And people still can't understand the hypocrisy?
Perhaps people should expect more of the politicans for whom they vote.
So wait - should he sell off his houses or should he rent them out? Or maybe give them away or let people stay in them for free?
He's the socialist.
I don't get your point really. We actually need landlords and property's for sale and Higgins provided both for a period.
I agree with Higgins the housing crisis is a total disaster. I commend anyone who tells the truth, even a hypocrite, which he is not.
As an aside, that area of Galway is really close to NUIG, and he was letting the place for 360 euro a head per month. I'm not saying he wasn't making his money, but that's about as cheap as a letting gets in that part of Galway. He wasn't making a killing.
The man is a saint.
I don't believe anyone is saying that. But he certainly deserves more respect than some of the toxic bullsh*t being spouted about him in this thread.
Guess we've reached the "Leave Britney/Miggledy Alone" stage of the debate. His poetry can be upsetting for some. :)
https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/critic-says-presidents-poems-are-a-crime-against-literature-26820111.html
Do we need a president and a 7 year term
A president? Yes. The seven year term seems to have been to provide some kind of continuity between governments. A number of presidents did not serve their full term.
Insulting posters I’m afraid is not civil. That it’s needed to be explained to you tells me everything.
anyway..
higgins refers to the housing crisis as a disaster… yet here he is advocating that more Irish people are plunged into a deeper housing crisis. So he advocates, our president advocating further disaster on the people of this country..treasonous.
he was a TD for a quarter of a century and over that time he held one ministerial position, for 3 or so of those 25 years…a part time, tokenistic one that was absorbed into other departments subsequently.. that tells you EVERYTHING.
a little man with a lot to say but far less substance, ideas and ideals than the excitable worldly exterior and the polished speeches which he uses cannily to hoodwink and posture…might suggest…
he’s been found out…too late mind but found out he certainly has been….
You dont feel someone who made a passionate speech about homeless/housing at opening of a homeless shelter for young adults is a hypocrite,when he himself made a bunch of young adults homeless to take advantage of tax breaks🤔
a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings
With some of the base insults (gnome etc etc) flying about MDH out of the posters here, I'm genuinely surprised at how sensitive a lot of you are when someone points how desperately sad it is, and doubly sensitive when called out on lack of knowledge on the constitutional limits (or lack thereof) on Presendential utterances is highlighted.
Found out?
A corner of the internet is jumping up and down about a rental house. Very few people give a sh*t. He's the most popular president of the last 30 or so years.
And what are you talking about "treason" and "advocating further disaster"? Seriously, do you have some prescription meds you need to take?
It's really sad. (I know you feel insulted again, you'll just have to deal with that)
Going back to the OP, his excuse is an incredible act of evasion. https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/michael-d-higgins-denies-linking-nigeria-church-shooting-to-climate-change-41751953.html
Apparently "the President made no link in his statement between climate change and the attack itself"
So mentioning them both in the same sentence isn't creating a link. Specifically, this sentence isn't creating a link:
"That such an attack was made in a place of worship is a source of particular condemnation, as is any attempt to scapegoat pastoral peoples who are among the foremost victims of the consequences of climate change."
I honestly can't see how anyone can say that isn't creating a link. It absolutely equates being murdered in your place of worship to being impacted by climate change.
It's as if we've given up on even trying to make sense.
![Photo of [Deleted User]](https://wc.vanillicon.com/v2/c6e76a2e0d85c3808d93c2f75a0c528d.svg)
