PRESIDENT HIGGINS TO BE GIVEN FREEDOM OF CITY

Date Published: 14-Feb-2012

President of Ireland Michael D.Higgins is to be given the freedom of Galway city.

The city council has unanimously agreed to bestow its highest honour on the former Galway West TD at a ceremony in the coming months.

Michael D.Higgins will join the state's first president Douglas Hyde and Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on the scroll of freeman of Galway city.