A little over two weeks later, Higgins successfully defended his Welsh Open title by beating Stephen Maguire 9 – 6 in the final – dedicating victory to his late father.

Tuke, together with Godfrey Higgins set about investigating the appalling conditions within the York Lunatic asylum after Hannah Mills ' death, and successfully had it deemed unfit for purpose due to the squalor the patients lived in.

Following the retirement of the veteran Conservative MP Terence Higgins, Bottomley contested the newly formed constituency Worthing West, won with a majority of over 9, 000, now built to over 12, 000 with 50 % of the vote.

Higgins and O ' Sullivan also contested the Masters finals in 2005 and 2006.

However, his form soon improved and at the next world ranking event, the Shanghai Masters, he dismissed Liang Wenbo, Michael Holt and John Higgins, before losing 5-6 to Mark Williams in a tightly contested semi-final.

In Ireland, in the 2009 European election, Joe Higgins of the Socialist Party took one of three seats in the capital Dublin European constituency.

Higgins defeated Phil Canterino in elections held March 18, 2009.

Three new village trustees joined the board in 2009: 23-year-old Brenten Schuyler Foote ( elected, with the largest vote total of any trustee candidate in all of Orange County ), Ed Char ( elected ) and Mal Stewart ( appointed to Higgins ' old seat ).

Hannah Higgins and Douglas Kahn ( Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009 ).

Hamilton campaigning in the seat of Higgins in 2009

On 23 October 2009, Hamilton was announced as the Australian Greens candidate for the by-election in the federal seat of Higgins.

In 2008 he starred in the musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels at Cirkus in Stockholm, and in 2009 he played Professor Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady in Stockholm acting opposite Helen Sjöholm, who portrayed the role of Eliza Doolittle.

Through campaigning work it has built some electoral support, Joe Higgins first being elected to Dáil Éireann in 1997 and to the European Parliament in 2009 along with five other members elected to local councils in Dublin, Cork and Drogheda.

In the 2009 European and local elections, Joe Higgins took a seat in the Dublin European constituency with 50, 510 ( 12. 4 %) first preference votes, as well as gaining a seat in the Castleknock local electoral area of Fingal County Council.

* Matt Waine – Castleknock, Fingal County Council ( co-opted in place of Joe Higgins on his election to the European Parliament in June 2009 )

In March 2009 Vettriano donated a self-portrait, ' The Weight ( study )', to the Lighthouse Gala Auction in aid of the Terrence Higgins Trust.

The seat of Higgins was created in 1949 and held by Harold Holt CH 1949-1967, Sir John Gorton PC GCMG AC CH 1968-1975, Roger Shipton OAM 1975-1990, Peter Costello 1990-2009 and Kelly O ' Dwyer since 2009 ( all on behalf of the Liberal Party of Australia ).

Having ended the 2009 / 2010 season by regaining the No. 1 for the third time in his career, Higgins was the target of tabloid newspaper sting resulting in a 6-month ban from snooker.

In the World Championship in 2009, Higgins beat Michael Holt 10 – 5 in round one.

In 2009, Ebdon beat John Higgins 10 – 8 to win the China Open.

Dott had not had much success in the 2009 / 2010 season going into the World Championship, with only one ranking last 16 finish, in the 2010 Welsh Open ; however, with the two tournament favourites, defending champion John Higgins and world # 1 Ronnie O ' Sullivan, both falling victim to unexpected early exits from the tournament, a newly-inspired Dott convincingly knocked out Peter Ebdon in the first round 10 – 5.

The 2009 final saw the reigning world champion John Higgins lose to Ding Junhui, after he missed the brown and the chance to go 8 – 6 in front.

Joe Higgins in Brussels 2009

Due to dual mandate rules, Higgins vacated this council seat in July 2009 and was replaced by Matt Waine.

In 2009 Higgins was a political opponent of the Irish government's re-run of the Treaty of Lisbon referendum.

* Mr Higgins Goes to Brussels, Kathy Sheridan, The Irish Times, 13 June 2009

Since the summer of 2009, the Museum has also hosted an ongoing series of thrice-weekly classes, the Higgins Academy of the Sword, where students learn classical fencing as well as fencing with the historical weapons.

Family First did not stand a candidate in any of the 2008 Lyne, 2009 Bradfield or 2009 Higgins by-elections.

It has had a sizable amount of support in the Fingal electoral district and has a Member of the European Parliament, Paul Murphy, representing Dublin and two Members of the Irish Parliament ( Dáil Éireann ), Clare Daly, representing Dublin North and Joe Higgins, representing Dublin West.

Thomas Francis O ' Higgins ( 23 July 1916 – 25 February 2003 ) was an Irish Fine Gael politician, barrister and judge, who was Chief Justice of Ireland and a member of the European Court of Justice.

The first European settler in the area was Thomas Higgins, who received a grant of land in Old Mans Valley.

In the European elections held on the same day, Joe Higgins received 23, 200 ( 5. 5 %) votes in the Dublin constituency, but did not win a seat being eliminated on the 3rd count.

Higgins returned to professional competition on 12 November 2010 in the Ruhr Championship – European Players Tour Championship ( EPTC ) event five in Hamm, Germany, and went on to win the tournament beating Shaun Murphy 4 – 2 in the final.

At the 2004 European Parliament election, Higgins received 23, 200 ( 5. 5 %) votes in the Dublin constituency, double his 1999 result, but did not win a seat.

During a debate at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, Higgins described the European Financial Stability Facility ( EFSF ), as “ nothing more than another tool to cushion major European banks from the consequences of their reckless speculation on the financial markets ”.

Higgins claimed the EFSF was a " mechanism to make working class people throughout Europe pay for the crisis of a broken financial system and a crisis-ridden European capitalism ”.

* Jim Higgins — Member of the European Parliament.

Many individuals and groups in various parts of the world, as well as institutions such as the Higgins Armory Museum, are engaged in attempting to reconstruct Historical European Martial Arts using various training methods.

* Tom O ' Higgins, Former Chief Justice, Former Minster for Health, Judge of the European Court of Justice.

Jim Higgins ( born 4 May 1945 ) is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has served as a member of Seanad Éireann, Dáil Éireann, and is a Member of the European Parliament for the North-West constituency since 2004.

In the 2004 European Parliament election Higgins was elected to the European Parliament as a Fine Gael / European People's Party MEP for the North-West constituency.

He subsequently lost his seat to Socialist Party candidate Joe Higgins in the 2009 European election.