Sabina Higgins Letter to Irish Times calling for ceasefire on Ukraine

Apart from Sabina Higgins being clueless about Gustav Holst and about the war in Ukraine, her letter was posted on the president.ie website. That's the problem. It can be argued that it was an endorsement of the opinions in the letter by the president. The government makes foreign policy. The way that the letter and its appearance on the president's website was picked up by the Russian ambassador confirms that she is a useful idiot.

Regards...jmcc

It is his job to do that and useful idiots make it easier. When Sabina Higgins' letter appeared on the president.ie website, it helped him. If it had not appeared on the presidential website then it may have gone largely unnoticed. The government decides foreign policy not the president.

Regards...jmcc

Exactly - Francie, you or I can write away to the IT and no one should or would pay a blind bit of notice.

The Higgins though are in a very different boat, he is elected to represent us the citizens and she is his wife, the first lady. They function as thus when they meet & greet ambassadors and visiting signatories on our behalf.

That s/he should write a letter phrased as it was and have it published both in IT and the presidents official website is a thundering disgrace.

Who's arguing for Russian Propaganda to be 'tolerated'? Sabina Higgins isn't propagating on behalf of Russia either so I'm not really sure where you're going with this point.

It has a very specific meaning. It is not simply calling someone an idiot for the sake of it. Once that letter appeared on the president's website, it was going to be used by the Russians. Ireland has a seat on the UN Security Council and the Ireland's foreign policy on the war in Ukraine has been clearly stated. It is not up to the president or his wife to decide Ireland's foreign policy. The appearance of the letter on the president's website was wrong. That's when it stopped being the opinions of some random individual and became a problem. She hasn't been elected to anything.

Regards...jmcc

Not when the Sabina Higgins' letter appeared on the presidient.ie website. That changed it from being a letter in the Irish Times to a letter on the president's website and one which arguably had the endorsement of the president. The president and his wife don't determine Irish foreign policy. The letter was removed from the president.ie website and there has been an obvious campaign in the media to limit the damage and confine it to Sabina Higgins. The Ukranian ambassador was also quoted as saying that it does not represent the government's policy or the sentiments of the Irish people. Both the Aras and the government would not give any statements to the media on this. That's generally what happens when there is an attempt being made to kill a story. The Indo was calling on MDH to make a comment on the mess that Sabina Higgins' letter has caused.

Regards...jmcc

I agree about the website. It shouldn't have happened but it was taken down.

Put it this way, the only people the 'useful idiot' tag is useful to, is those who pay regard to what the Russians or the Ambassador has to say.

The Ukrainian ambassador understood that. A few here would do well to follow suit.

Well it only has meaning to those who would listen to what the Russians or Ambassador has to say.

The rest of us, it has no import or meaning tbh.

This is not the 1970’s or 80’s. Just a few clicks away you can view in near real time the heinous acts perpetrated by this horrendous Russian regime . Nobody has any excuse thinking that maybe Russia is not as bad as they are being made out. The truth is they are infinitely worse. Fighting a war with 19th century brutality in the 21st century when we can all see what they are at. What a shower of numbskulls .

Micky D's appearance at the Fleadh Cheoil opening yesterday in Mullingar was very low key (presumably there was strict instructions about questions etc.)

The whole story seems to have gone off the front pages of news websites..... "Job done... catastrophe avoided" say Government spin doctors. Pity.

She basically told a rape victim to stop struggling whilst at the same time legitimising their rapist.

Then to top off her ill informed rant, she copy and pasted a poem she clearly hasn't read.

A national embarrassment.