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‹ Order of Business President Higgins and Fidel Castro
Summary
Keith Swanick objects to President Higgins’s positive remarks about Fidel Castro, citing the Castro regime’s human-rights abuses and saying the comments do not represent him.
On a point of principle, the statement by the President horrified me and I struggled to understand how he could, on behalf of the Irish people, express such glowing tributes to a tyrant and dictator.
Comment on this
The glaring omission of the human rights atrocities by the Castro regime was disgusting. The remarks do not speak on my behalf. Words are important and I want to distance myself from the comments of President Higgins.