President Michael D Higgins and his wife Sabina hosted a Bloomsday garden party at Áras an Uachtárain on Sunday. Photograph: Maxwell President Michael D Higgins says he has “no intention” of remaining silent while the bombardment of Gaza continues. Mr Higgins signalled that he does not plan to go quietly into retirement ahead of his second and final term in Áras an Uachtaráin ending in November. He said he believed there was “no point in what is left of my own life, and all of the rest of it, pretending it is just an ordinary period of time”. “It is...