{"id":131913,"date":"2025-11-10T09:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T09:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/131913\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T09:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T09:41:09","slug":"the-indo-daily-castro-connolly-and-controversies-president-michael-d-higgins-legacy-examined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/131913\/","title":{"rendered":"The Indo Daily: Castro, Connolly, and controversies: President Michael D Higgins&#8217; legacy examined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Indo Daily\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/6a099fd7-a8a4-46d5-a2c2-bbd2a94f9694.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Indo Daily<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The minutes are ticking down on Michael D Higgins\u2019s 14-year term as President of Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">This week, he will formally hand over the reins as leader of the State when president-elect Catherine Connolly is inaugurated as the newest first citizen of Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">What legacy does President Higgins leave behind? Where does he go next? And what are the biggest wins and losses of his time in \u00c1ras an Uachtar\u00e1in?<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Today on the Indo Daily, Tabitha Monahan is joined by Kevin Doyle, Group Head of News at Mediahuis Ireland, and by Ireland Editor for the Irish Independent Fionn\u00e1n Sheahan, to remember some of President Higgins\u2019s standout moments and look at what happens now as Catherine Connolly prepares to take residency in the \u00c1ras.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Read more about why you can Trust the Irish Independent at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.ie\/about-us\/our-journalism\/a2146721679.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Independent.ie\/ourjournalism<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indo Daily The minutes are ticking down on Michael D Higgins\u2019s 14-year term as President of Ireland. This&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-131913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}