Austerity ‘must not’ return, Higgins tells communist paper

Austerity ‘must not’ return, Higgins tells communist paper

President Michael D Higgins warned against a return to austerity. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw / The Irish Times President Michael D Higgins has used an interview with an Italian communist newspaper to warn against a return to austerity and praise the response of Cuba to the Covid-19 crisis.

He also said the Irish response to the crisis “seems to be bearing fruit” but warned about “serious problems” if pandemic regulations in Northern Ireland were different to those in the State.

Mr Higgins said it was a “huge disappointment” for him to “see discrimination on the basis of age in the responses to […]

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