STATEMENT BY CLLR RICHARD HUMPHREYS
Labour Party Councillor for Stillorgan
Tuesday, 13 September 2011
HUMPHREYS WELCOMES MICHAEL D. HIGGINS VISIT TO DUBLIN SOUTH
Cllr Richard Humphreys, the Labour Party Councillor for the Stillorgan Ward, has welcomed the visit of Labour Party Presidential candidate Michael D Higgins to the Dublin South Constituency.
Together with Labour Councillors Lettie McCarthy and Grace Tallon, Cllr Humphreys welcomed Michael D Higgins to Nutgrove Shopping Centre where Mr Higgins launched a new ecologically friendly computer system, “iameco”, the world’s first desktop computer to secure the EU’s coveted EcoFlower label.
“I wish to salute Michael D Higgins’ tremendous track record as an advocate for the rights of citizens and the concept of citizenship in a democracy and a properly functioning republic” Humphreys said. “Michael D Higgins is an enormously experienced administrator and public servant, who not only created and successfully ran a new Culture Ministry in the 1990s but chaired the EU Council of Culture Ministers and has served and represented Ireland at home and abroad.” Humphreys said.
“Michael D. Higgins is an extraordinary individual with a unique sense of vision and purpose for this country and it has been an enormous privilege for me to have worked closely with him over the past 20 years. I look back with particular pleasure in having worked in the same building as Michael for 5 years when I was a Government adviser and during that time I saw at first hand his indelible contribution to Irish public life, to change and renewal and to celebrating all that is best in our national character and abilities” Humphreys said. “He is a person who has an enormous amount to contribute to Ireland and who is a tremendous asset to the nation.”
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Photo caption: Left to Right – Cllr Lettie McCarthy, Michael D Higgins, Cllr Richard Humphreys and Cllr Grace Tallon at the launch of the “iameco” computer in Nutgrove Shopping Centre.
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