an open letter to the president of ireland michael d higgins

Mr President.
I am concerned that a week prior to your election as President of Ireland, the Irish police received a still publically unspecified allegation of criminality against you.
The police, perhaps suspicious of an attempt to subvert the election by slander, at first refused to investigate the allegation.
With days to polling a second report of the supposed allegation against you was forwarded to a different police department.
This department went through the motions of investigating it.
That is to say they took down the details and then did nothing.
Shortly after taking down the details, the second police department released a statement saying that the allegation was "without substance" as it had been forwarded third hand.
It is not clear precisely what the police meant by asserting that the allegation was third hand.
Nor is it clear whether the phrase third hand has any status within Irish law as a reason for police officers not to proceed with an investigation.
No information about the exact nature of the allegation against you, has been released.
One thing is clear.
If you are not guilty of whatever the hell was being alleged, it would be reassuring for the public to see this fact demonstrated clearly.

A proper explanation from the police with details of the complainant and an exposition of the complainant's motivation would at least clear the air.
If for instance, the kleptocratic Fianna Fail Party has been engaging in yet another of its disgraceful attempts to manipulate the political process, in this case by sabotaging your putative Presidency and frivolously criminalising you, this fact should surely come to light.
Traditionally those of us who worked in journalism were aware that this sort of dirty trick was something of a design feature in Fianna Fail.

Never mind those warm hearted sentimentalists at the drug dealing, people trafficking, child abusing IRA's parliamentary proxy political party Sinn Fein.
If we leave Fianna Fail (and the Shinners) out of the equation, we might still consider the capacity of your political rivals in the atheistic corporatist Fine Gael Party and within your own atheistic Marxian anti Catholic Labour Party for similar dirty tricks.
In any case President Michael D Higgins.
It would be good to know.