Hayes, who played three times for Republic of Ireland Under-21s, made 98 appearances, scoring 25 times, for Aberdeen's Scottish Premier League rivals.
These are difficult times for the republic, by any measure.
The unveiling comes at a sensitive time for the alpine republic as it desperately tries to repair its tarnished reputation following the entry into a coalition government of Jorg Haider's far right Freedom party (FPO) almost nine months ago.
The Amnesty report, Central African Republic: time for accountability (pdf), calls upon the interim president, Catherine Samba-Panza, to bring offenders to justice with the support of the AU and the international community, who have been criticised for not doing enough to stop the killing.
Their university sustained such a college for more than 300 years and, through it, the American republic, and for much of the time the republic led and inspired much of the world.
In one recent incident, the Egyptian cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who is hosted by the wealthy emirate of Qatar, stated, in reference to Syria, that the time for ruling dynasties in Arab republics was over.
A grand museum in the capital, Ankara, is due to open in time for the centenary of the Turkish republic in 2023.
And it's also time for the sensible citizens of our republic to discuss why on earth the football team that represents our nation's capital is still named for a racial slur.
Citizens of this new philosophical republic had little time for semi-mythical ancient sages, hidden natural sympathies, and the interpretive style of philosophizing (concerned more with styles of life and less with systematic theories) at which Ficino so excelled.
His miners, though resentful of Kiev, have little time for the self-proclaimed Donetsk people's republic.
