President Michael D Higgins has spent a second night in hospital for the treatment of an infection.<\/p>\n
President Higgins is in St James’s Hospital in Dublin where he is having antibiotic treatment for a localised infection.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, a spokesperson said the president’s condition had improved but that he would remain in hospital to continue the course of antibiotics.<\/p>\n
He said the president was in good spirits and feeling well.<\/p>\n
President Higgins travelled to the hospital by arrangement on Sunday and stayed in overnight for the last two nights.<\/p>\n
Last year, President Higgins spent several days in St James’s Hospital as a precaution to monitor his blood pressure.<\/p>\n
At the time, the president thanked the public for the “outpouring” of support he had received.<\/p>\n
He later revealed he had suffered a mild stroke.<\/p>\n
President Higgins will remain in office at \u00c1ras an Uachtar\u00e1in until Catherine Connolly’s inauguration in Dublin Castle on 11 November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Michael D Higgins has spent a second night in hospital for the treatment of an infection. President…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-149253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115450974447674099","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}