Michael D. Higgins will live in Rahoon, Co Galway after leaving Áras an Uachtaráin. Plans include continuing projects abroad and at home, with a focus on eliminating violence against women and engagement with traveller communities. Several initiatives require completion before the inauguration of his successor. He looks forward to time with his grandchildren, Finn (2) and Fiadh (4), and to returning to books set aside. Higgins suffered a stroke on February 29 last year, spent eight days in hospital, received physiotherapy, recovered most function on his left side, but still experiences some balance risk.
"I know I'm hearing talks about boxes and skips and books and everything. I'm very much looking forward, I'm going to be living in Rahoon," he said. "There are projects I'm continuing abroad, as well as at home, and I do think I will run a few significant things that I haven't really got to deal with that I want to put more on, and that is in relation to the elimination of violence against women."
"I also want to do a few more things, because all my life, I have been meeting the travellers and so forth, and I will probably do something. So there are a number of pieces that I have to finish before we go for the inauguration of my successor." "It is marvellous that Sabina and I have both been public figures all our lives. I'm very much looking forward to spending some time with our two grandchildren," he said.
"Then I had very good treatment from the physios and from everyone, so I didn't cancel anything. So I can assure you I'm not flying up and down the steps to the same speed. "I also used sticks, because the stroke was on my left side, and it is mostly all back, but my balance is risky,"
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