Pride of the nation: Dublin could not have looked better for the 1916 Commemoration

There were a number of times in our recent history when we could stand up tall and say we were proud to be Irish - and today's events just jumped straight to the top of that list.

As a state ceremony took place outside the GPO on Dublin's O'Connell street, as well as many other events across the country, hundreds of thousands of people flooded the capitol to pay their respects to the fallen of the 1916 Rising.