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President Michael D Higgins has said that the spirit of solidarity that the country has experienced this year in the midst of Covid-19 can be our guiding light into the coming year, which he said will offer challenges.
In his Christmas message, President Higgins said that working together to control Covid-19 would require “the best of us all.”
“We need not only to speak the language of citizenship, but to transmit and share it as we encourage each other to have a vision of the light that will surely come if we work as one, renewing and redoubling our efforts to suppress the coronavirus.” “President Higgins said.
However, he said invoking solidarity requires that we all “understand the vulnerability of others.”
President Higgins said that while 2020 has been a challenging year for all of us, the impact of Covid-19 has been enormously magnified for vulnerable groups, adding that the “compassion, caring and empathy” that has been shown towards vulnerable people will define how the story. I will remember these times.
He said that this year, people were asked to make a “demanding adjustment” to their way of life, which has required “considerable resilience, self-denial and compassion” from everyone.
It was gratifying to see the level of generosity that was shown throughout the year, he said, and fortunate to have seen such self-sacrifice by essential workers, neighbors and family members, to lessen the disruption and isolation this year has brought.
“As we reflect on our recent experiences this Christmas, this spirit of solidarity can be our guiding light on the path to a new year that will offer us challenges, but that we can approach with hope, as a result of what we have been doing together.” , said.
“We have seen so many examples of citizens putting the common good above their own wishes and making sacrifices to help and save others during the pandemic,” he added.
Christmas has always meant a time of hope and the rebirth of hope, he said, adding that those who have not been able to return to Ireland due to the virus will be connected in spirit with their loved ones during the festive season.
“Let us continue to move forward in a spirit of hope and solidarity. Now that we stand at a watershed moment in our nation’s history, let us choose together how we wish to write this next chapter, how we wish to shape a new Ireland waiting to be born,” he said.
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