President Higgins is fully aware of one of the biggest concerns for friends and family this Christmas.
We're as tired of saying it as we are of hearing it, but that doesn't make it any less true: Christmas 2020 is going to be like no other.
Between people having to be careful who they let into their homes for Christmas dinner, to restrictions limiting how many people you can see if you're going out for a Christmas drink or two. The idea of a work Christmas party seems alien to most, as does anything approaching a 12 Pubs of Christmas.
So many things that we took for granted each and every Christmas are either much more difficult or outright impossible to do this time around, and one of the biggest challenges facing family and friends is those who usually make the annual return to Ireland for Christmas.
Many may decide that travelling this Christmas is not worth the risk, or the required two week restricted movements once you get back home will negate the whole reason in coming home in the first place.
This something that President Michael D. Higgins is fully aware of, and is at the heart of the reasons why some of the Christmas decorations this year are spread out from the President's House.
In a message on social media, President Higgins stated the following:
"At Áras An Uachtaráin, President Higgins and Sabina lit a river of light, streaming from the Light for the Diaspora on the first floor, across the grounds, and out to all the Irish people and all those who cannot be with their families this Christmas."
You can check out a full gallery of the lovely Christmas decorations right here:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CIoiucrneN2/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Main image via Instagam/
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