DUP leader criticises Michael D Higgins’ decision not to attend service marking island’s partition in 1921
Ireland’s president, Michael D Higgins, has triggered a political row with Northern Ireland’s unionists by shunning a commemoration of the island’s partition 100 years ago.
Higgins said he would not attend a church service with the Queen next month to mark the creation of Northern Ireland because the event had become politicised.
