Political leaders gather at GPO for ‘moving’ Easter Rising ceremony
Hundreds have gathered in Dublin city to watch a ceremony marking 108 years since the 1916 Rising against British rule in Ireland.
Irish president Michael D Higgins and Irish premier Leo Varadkar led the annual State commemoration, as Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald said that the proclamation still resonates over a century later.
personnel and the brass and pipe bands lined up outside the capital’s iconic GPO building on O’Connell Street
