We are not allies, I can safely say, President Michael D Higgins and I, on most issues. I have written previously about his tendency to use the Presidential office (which costs the taxpayer between €4 and €5 million a year, by the way) as his own personal soap box.
However, it seems to me that the extent and spread of the hostile reaction to Higgins’s latest take on geo-politics seems to be not just over the top, but also a little choreographed.
At the weekend, the President attended the Young Scientists & Technology Exhibition in the RDS where he made the sort of remarks which are now fairly commonplace for the man, who, no…