PRESIDENT OF IRELAND TO BECOME FREEMAN OF CITY

Date Published: 11-May-2012

President Michael D.Higgins will become the 28th freeman of Galway city this evening. (11/05)

Galway city council will bestow its highest honour on Ireland's ninth President at a ceremony in the Meyrick Hotel at 5pm.

The former Labour Party TD for Galway West was born in Limerick and raised in County Clare but has called Galway his home since 1961.

Earlier the president commended the work of Irish Rural Link in tackling isolation after he visited the group's base in Letterfrack.

President Higgins also travelled to Carna in the last hour [2pm] where he is officiating at the 40th anniversary of Raidio na Gaeltachta.