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4 days ago?The Irish Independent's View: New chapter begins as Michael D Higgins passes presidential torch to Catherine Connolly
In 2014 he undertook a state visit to the UK at the ­invitation of Queen Elizabeth. Before leaving, he said the task was not to "wipe the slate clean" of all the distrust and difficulties of the past, but to look to the future. "The challenge is to hand to a future generation all of the prospects of the future. You are not inviting them to an amnesia about any deep dispute," he said. His trip was a resounding success.
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