Tony Maxwell President Michael D Higgins has confirmed that he had a stroke during the health scare that led to his hospitalisation for the first week of March. The president was taken to St James’s Hospital in Dublin on February 29th, after falling ill with what was described at the time as a “mild transient weakness” The Big Read Stardust families and survivors leave the Dáil after Taoiseach Simon Harris delivered a formal State apology to the families and to the victims of the