Pic of Day: President Michael D. Higgins addressing the UN Summit of the Future at the United Nations in Manhattan on Sunday. The Irish president was also in New York to receive the Eugene O’Neill International Public Service Award presented by the Irish American Writers & Artists Association, this at an event Monday evening in the Irish Arts Center in New York. Amid all this he found himself at the center of an international row over a letter he wrote to the new Iranian president. Full report in this week's print/digital edition of the Echo. Photo by Maxwell Photography.
