FULL DAY OF ENGAGEMENTS FOR PRESIDENT HIGGINS IN GALWAY

Date Published: 09-May-2012

President Michael D Higgins is to visit Galway on Friday where he will be conferred with the Freedom of the City.

President Higgins will begin his trip in Letterfrack at 11am where he will open Irish Rural Link's 21st anniversary conference.

From there, he will travel to Casla in Connemara at 2pm where he will officiate at the 40th anniversary celebrations of Raidió na Gaeltachta.

The president will then be welcomed by City Mayor Hildegarde Naughton at the Meyrick Hotel on Eyre Square where he will be made a freeman of the city at 5pm.