There’s been a broad welcome to the news that President Michael D Higgins will make an official state visit to the UK next year.
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It will be the first time any Irish head of state has made an official trip there and follows Queen Elizabeth’s successful visit to Ireland in 2011 – the first by a reigning British monarch in a hundred years.
Both the Taoiseach and the Tanaiste have welcomed the news, as has the Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams.
