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Sunday, October 30, 2011

Conservative Irish eyes aren't smiling

Michael D. Higgins, new Irish 
president
6:37PM BST 28 Oct 2011

Michael D. Higgins will become Ireland's next president. He is a 70-year-old poet and former arts minister. he is a member of the Dáil Éireann, the Irish Labour Party.

He is a veteran intellectual who has written two volumes of poetry and has been a MP since the early 1980s.

His slogan stated that he would be a president to be proud of.

Sean Gallagher,was Higgins' main opponent. He was on the reality TV show "Dragons Den"

Higgins had been trailing far behind Gallagher in opinion polls until the final week of his campaign.

Gallagher's lead melted away after he was accused of collecting a 5,000-euro donation from a convicted criminal in a recent live televised debate.

Gallagher bitterly denied having handled it and accused another opponent of launching a "political assassination" attempt, but the damage was done.

Gallagher may have been more deeply involved than he said with Fianna Fail, his former party which lost heavily in February's general election. Fianna Fall has been blamed for Ireland's economic crisis.

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