{"id":460794,"date":"2026-04-30T04:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T04:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/460794\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T04:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T04:07:11","slug":"michael-d-higgins-returned-e2-6-million-of-pay-and-allowances-to-state-over-14-year-presidency-the-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/460794\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael D Higgins returned \u20ac2.6 million of pay and allowances to State over 14-year presidency – The Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Michael D Higgins returned \u20ac2.6 million of pay and allowances to State over 14-year presidency<\/a>  The Journal<\/li>\n
  2. Underspend of nearly \u20ac400,000 in second Higgins \u00c1ras term<\/a>  RTE.ie<\/li>\n
  3. Michael D Higgins gives over \u20ac2m back to the State after two presidency terms<\/a>  Irish Mirror<\/li>\n
  4. Michael D. Higgins returns total of \u20ac2.6 million to Exchequer over course of two terms as President of Ireland<\/a>  Extra.ie<\/li>\n
  5. Michael D Higgins returns \u20ac2.6 million in salary and allowances to the State of Ireland<\/a>  The Irish Independent<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael D Higgins returned \u20ac2.6 million of pay and allowances to State over 14-year presidency  The Journal Underspend of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,202626,13,14,190355,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,1874,5,31781,99322,13562,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-460794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-exchequer","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-former-president","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-michael-d-higgins","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-presidency","25":"tag-president-michael-d-higgins","26":"tag-state","27":"tag-top-stories","28":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116491691301156584","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460794","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=460794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}