In his annual Christmas and New Year message, Michael D Higgins extends his sympathies to those who have lost loved ones to COVID-19 in 2021.
President Higgins said he was deeply conscious of the Irish abroad and those living in Ireland with families overseas, who have had to endure long separations.
He continued:"Today we are once more in a period of adjustment, with new measures appropriate to new circumstances, as we hope to emerge from the pandemic.17 December: Ireland imposes curfew "From what we are going through together, as well as the efforts we are sharing, I am confident that we will have been building a better, shared future, one rooted in the spirit of unselfish citizenship that has been so visible in recent times.
"The pandemic has once again reminded us too of how interconnected and interdependent in a global sense we are; the responsibilities, as well as the benefits, that brings, of how the quality of our response to that interconnection and interdependence matters, indeed will affect our very survival together," he added.
Reflecting on the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow last month, he said Ireland would be required to play"a selfless part" at this"critical juncture" in the climate crisis.
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