President Michael D Higgins has said the spirit of solidarity that has seen the country through this year amid Covid-19 can be our guiding light toward next year, which he said will offer challenges.
In his Christmas message, President Higgins said that working together to control Covid-19 would require "the best of us all". "We need not only to speak the language of citizenship, but to deliver it and share it as we encourage each other to have a vision of the light that will surely come if we work as one, renewing and redoubling our efforts to suppress the coronavirus," President Higgins said.
He said that invoking solidarity requires us all however to "understand the vulnerability of others". President Higgins said that while 2020 has