President elect Michael D Higgins smoked weed at Indiana University

Voters in Ireland and elsewhere pay no attention whatsoever to the fact that politicians smoked cannabis in their youth. In the presidential election, Michael D. Higgins won the highest vote ever received by any Irish politician. His cannabis smoking 45 years ago did not feature in Irish voters' decisions. It was also known that Clinton, Bush Junior, and Obama smoked. No-one cares. David Cameron, the British prime minister, smoked; he was elected anyway. So, who does care? Newspaper editors looking for a meaningless headline that citizens don't pay any attention to.

'President elect' Higgins ?? WicklowPeter, 'Maybe the Kenny regime has rigged the vote', that was the risk with the previous crowd, which is why the EUR50 million voting machines were disgarded, FF couldn't be trusted. Higgins pot use might be an explanation for his stinted growth, not his mind however.

President elect Michael D Higgins ??? Don't the voters of Ireland have any say ? As far as I know we do not vote until October 27th ? Maybe the Kenny regime has rigged the vote......

OK, but who didn't smoke pot back then? The media needs to get over that...we have two generations of pot smokers coming up.

the elf with suprizes aplenty. prez elf of erin.

Far more relevant is this man's support for unlimited migration into Ireland of people from the four corners of the world, and the fact that he was caught in a lie during the plebiscite on citizenship some years ago. This guy claimed that children from Nigeria would be left stateless if the vote was passed. An utter lie, as it turned out, but one that was unchallenged in the gutless Irish media. That is until the Nigerian Embassy in Dublin said no such thing could happen---children born in Ireland of Nigerian parents were Nigerian citizens. Thankfully, Higgins' crude lie got little credence in Ireland, as his side lost that vote four to one. It's not surprising that the Irish media are giving him a free run right now--the Irish media are the laziest and most venal in the world.

OMG!!!!!!!!!! I was only 50 years ago!

Hmmm, what's worse? Higgins smoking weed in his past?... or McGuinness ordering punishment shootings/beatings, robberies, protection rackets, murders & intimidation in his past? That's a difficult one.

President elect Michael D Higgins? Did I miss something?

STOP PRESS! ELECTION SHOCK! > > Michael D. Higgins tipped over his potty when he was being toilet trained; it was revealed today. Another report alleges he once threw a toy out of his pram and then spat out his dummy! (soother, pacifier). Political observers of the Race for the Aras, say he will be greatly undermined by these scandalous revelations!