{"id":388356,"date":"2026-04-08T16:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T16:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/388356\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T16:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T16:24:09","slug":"michael-d-higgins-condemns-rhetoric-of-militarism-and-rejects-ireland-becoming-more-lethal-the-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/388356\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael D Higgins condemns &#039;rhetoric of militarism&#039; and rejects Ireland becoming more &#039;lethal&#039; &#8211; The Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMipgFBVV95cUxNLVRORWc3QnQweFZBbThsSUtjQWlEb0lvVFE1RGRhMWgyT1JQYjlJYVRJcTItWmZTNThVRENGNlFHQWxKRUxYSEhldWo5U1VHeml5XzhyemRBVkZuc3U3SGdoN29LeGkwMkhMblVHMUs5bEpvV2FpbjlTNzduTHNiNTJDcVktY18tcjNqTkxCSWp0MHhfYW9DQ3JoRlhkZGlJYWNRbnlR?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Michael D Higgins condemns &#8216;rhetoric of militarism&#8217; and rejects Ireland becoming more &#8216;lethal&#8217;<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Journal<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMinAFBVV95cUxPdnNpLXg5dktoTE1zMkpCeFZvUTFNTTZRQVRXN1Vaamh6TEZRTUQtc3lETlY4YzEwbzNRS1o1MERJdXVjckp6NVRpNTJvT0ZMZTJMQXBWb1J6aEVPaEVnNnFvNEk5VWJzZS1YV3ZrT3k5aV9pQXBlTEthSmxDa2FuN0lrXzB5cWFZQjIzWkEwT21sY1g5ZTBMOXI5dVI?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Higgins urges teachers to &#8216;be the arrow, not the target&#8217;<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;RTE.ie<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiY0FVX3lxTE9iQWh3NW84X3RYY0NUYkVhY2I2Z3gwazd0OXVMVklYWjBvZVl1NEg3cEZLOE1LUXd5d1A4djVPZlI1WlVTSTNxQU81eWw2d29iemJudVFRcFlXMm9ZLS1hVUo0TQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Michael D Higgins warns against \u2018normalisation\u2019 of war in first speech since presidency<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Irish Examiner<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi3wFBVV95cUxNWFFIZi1md05tYlYzZUo0ODlQTFduT010b0FnMGU3UWdWM0NxaGlod3Z5X01xdmRXRVhuUUwzRUd0eGRTX2dONVRRNFVaTTFpdXVLVVM4VUp3dEtyWUF3dGF1a1JBaGRJUzZuajVOZk1BcFhaSnR1UmFWVFQzU21LYWE0a3JrMnQxTklhVFh5ZEpvdEN4T1QybFQ1NGRhazZwVWxrQVFuR2R3VjdsX2R4al9mUGV2WXhqQUNDdDJlZ1EyLWlPUTNFYTZpY1ZuYzdfLXFVeUthQ1hfdnZCcFpr?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Former President Michael D Higgins hits out at militarism and \u2018outrageous\u2019 political language<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Irish Independent<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMipgFBVV95cUxPeS1ucFlCMVBXNkUwR2hONGVfT0wzZlhtaENPUEpoTmxhS0ZyTmlxQmxSUDEyTS15a3RqWlE4OUVBM1pFYU9RSGFwOU9pM2dFV3owc1E3ZERSeTMyVUlUZkxzeUhEYWJ5dXBGbXZYWm1EVFo0MUxYazlaNlJucWdJOWpJMzEwU0N3cUJJV1Qwd2VsQ25vcmpDM1dUZzFNdk5VZVlnMTFn?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Former President says war has become normalised on visit to Kerry<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Radio Kerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael D Higgins condemns &#8216;rhetoric of militarism&#8217; and rejects Ireland becoming more &#8216;lethal&#8217;&nbsp;&nbsp;The JournalHiggins urges teachers to &#8216;be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[64320,172513,172514,104770,61,4897,60,977,43,172515,172516,150173],"class_list":{"0":"post-388356","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-aras-an-uachtarain","9":"tag-combating-militarism-rhetoric","10":"tag-former-president","11":"tag-global-conflict","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-into","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-michael-d-higgins","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-president-higgins","18":"tag-united-national-2030-agenda","19":"tag-us-iran-war"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388356","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=388356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}