With Áras an Uachtaráin roughly halfway between Dalymount Park and Richmond Park, Uachtarán na hÉireann Michael D. Higgins made the short trip to see his two local clubs face off on Friday night.
Unfortunately, it was St Patrick’s Athletic who came away with the bragging rights this time around.
At half-time, Higgins, the ninth President of Ireland, adjourned to the Jackie Jameson Bar where he sat underneath the photograph of Eamon de Valera, third President of Ireland, and Douglas Hyde, first President of Ireland, which was taken in Dalymount Park in November 1938.
