Michael D Higgins spends night in hospital for treatment

Irish President Michael D Higgins spent the night in hospital for evaluation of a localized infection.

President Higgins went to St James’s Hospital in Dublin on Sunday by agreement and received antibiotics.

A spokesman said he was in “good spirits”. It is understood he will return to Áras an Uachtaráin, the official residence and main workplace of the President of Ireland.

Higgins will remain in the post until Catherine Connolly takes office at Dublin Castle on 11 November.

he had congratulated his successor following the weekend’s landslide election victory.

Independent TD (member of the Irish parliament) obtained 914,143 first preference votes (63%); This is a record in Irish presidential election history.

But politicians said the issue of the unprecedented number of 213,738 invalid votes needed to be addressed.

Connolly was officially declared the 10th elected president of the Republic of Ireland after defeating Fine Gael’s Heather Humphreys in Dublin Castle on Saturday evening.