President Michael D Higgins has paid tribute to former US President Jimmy Carter, who has died at the age of 100.
The Carter Center confirmed that Mr Carter passed away this afternoon in Plains, Georgia.
President Higgins said Mr Carter will be remembered by those who knew him as a “thoroughly decent man of great integrity”, who will leave a “rich legacy of public service”.
He said: “The values that a global public have come to associate with former President of the United States, Jimmy Carter, for younger generations in particular, will have been through their awareness, and admiration, of the work of the Carter Center.
“These values were, however, ones…