PRESIDENTIAL DIARY:PRESIDENT MICHAEL D Higgins's first week of public engagements will begin with the annual Remembrance Day service at St Patrick's Cathedral tomorrow.
Later tomorrow he will leave the State for the first time as President when he travels to Derry to attend the final of the All-Island School Choir Competition at the city’s Millennium Forum.
On Monday he will have a meeting at Áras an Uachtaráin with representatives of Diabetes Ireland for World Diabetes Day. The following day Mr Higgins, who has a long association with soccer through Galway United, will attend the second leg of Ireland’s Euro 2012 play-off against Estonia at the Aviva Stadium.
On Wednesday he will attend the National FIS Festival 2011, an award ceremony for short films created by schoolchildren at The Helix, Dublin City University, where he will present an award.
His final scheduled engagement of his first week in office will be the Irish Book Awards at the RDS in Dublin.
