Mr. Higgins Comes Home

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President hits out at racism, homophobia". RTÉ News. 24 March 2012. Archived from the original on 26 March 2012 . Retrieved 24 March 2012. Stelloh, Tim; Caldwell, Leigh Ann; Talbot, Haley (July 25, 2021). "GOP congressman says he has Covid-19 for second time". Yahoo! News . Retrieved July 25, 2021. Auschwitz Memorial condemns congressman's gas chamber video". ABC News. July 5, 2017 . Retrieved July 5, 2017. Gans, Andrew (May 19, 2003). "Rosemary Harris will play Mrs. Higgins in the upcoming Aug. 3 concert of My Fair Lady at the Hollywood Bowl". Playbill. Higgins originally joined Fianna Fáil in UCG while a mature student and was elected its branch chairman in 1966; he switched to the Labour Party shortly thereafter. [30] He was a Labour candidate in the 1969 and 1973 general elections but was unsuccessful on both occasions. [31] One of the people who canvassed for him was future leader of the Labour Party and Tánaiste, Eamon Gilmore, who was then a UCG student. Higgins was appointed in 1973 to the 13th Seanad Éireann by Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1981 general election as a Labour Party TD. [3] He was re-elected at the February 1982 election; he lost his seat at the November 1982 election (blaming his loss in part on his opposition to the Eighth Amendment), [32] but returned to the Seanad when he was elected by the National University constituency. He served as Mayor of Galway on two occasions, 1982–1983 and 1991–1992. Within the Labour Party during the 1980s he was one of the main figures, along with Emmet Stagg, who opposed going into coalition. [ citation needed]

Higgins returned to the Dáil at the 1987 general election and held his seat until the 2011 general election. [31] In 1993, he joined the Cabinet as Minister for Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht. During his period as minister he scrapped the controversial Section 31 of the Broadcasting Act, re-established the Irish Film Board and set up the Irish language television station, Teilifís na Gaeilge (later renamed TG4). [33] He was appointed to the Labour Party front bench in 2000. In 2003, Higgins succeeded Proinsias De Rossa in the symbolic position of the President of the Labour Party, while continuing as the party's spokesman on foreign affairs. [ citation needed]

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In July 2021, Higgins sent a letter to the Oireachtas expressing concern that there had been a tendency in recent years for him to be sent a large volume of complex legislation to be signed in a short period. [97] Higgins meets with U.S. President Joe Biden and rings the Peace Bell, April 2023

Monaghan join topflight as Galway go down". Irish Examiner. 4 November 2011. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016 . Retrieved 4 November 2011.Burke-Kennedy, Eoin; Minihan, Mary (26 November 2010). "FG's Burke to retire at next election". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 1 December 2010 . Retrieved 26 November 2010. The original book of the musical, and original productions, placed the ball scene at the end of Act I. Some later productions have moved it to the beginning of Act II.