Michael D. Higgins returns total of €2.6 million to Exchequer over course of two terms as President of Ireland

The cumulative figure includes €1,310,491 in Oireachtas and Ministerial pensions, and €689,474 in pay, foregone, over the 14 years of his Presidency. The former President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, returned a total of €2.6 million to the State over the course of his fourteen years as President. In recent days, newly published figures show that […]