Queues formed at Dublin’s GPO this morning as fans snapped up the two new stamps and special collector stamp sheets.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has accused the people behind yesterday's Saoradh march past the GPO 36 hours after Lyra McKee's shooting as being "beneath contempt" and "an insult to the Irish people".

Ireland's spoken word poet Natalya O'Flaherty has announced her debut headline show at The Sugar Club as part of Music Town 2019 in Dublin, April, 14.

The National Lottery celebrates its 30th birthday this week and in that time has created more than 800 millionaires and donated almost €5 billion to charitable causes.

Protestors see the future of the post office inextricably linked to a way of life in rural Ireland, rather than a means to make money, writes Michael Clifford.

In case you thought those Dan Brown adaptations had gone away, Tom Hanks is back with another one this week. There's also the very indie American Honey and some animated fun with the Storks.

It may have taken years to reconstruct after the Easter Rising, but a Lego enthusiast took 24 months and used 50,000 pieces to recreate Dublin’s main 1916 battleground.

The 'Timeline 1916 exhibition' and the film 'GPO 1916, Eyewitnesses to History' will run until May 20 at Cork City Hall.

WHEN you’re a scriptwriter whose latest TV series is an irreverent take on the 1916 Rising, it throws you a little when you meet your director for the first time and realise he’s a descendant of one of the most celebrated fighters to die at the GPO.

IT was an imperfect rebellion, inexpertly planned and poorly supported, and it had an imperfect outcome with unfinished ambitions and ideals yet to be fully honoured.

The two salvaged anchors from the 1916 German gun-running ship, the Aud, will be ready for permanent public display within weeks.

Some are household names, others have been overlooked but a move is on to honour, as a group, all those from the West Cork region who fought in Dublin during the Easter Rising.

A new exhibition in Dublin highlights the key events and locations of 1916 as caught on camera.

It was quite literally all about the ones and the zeros as an auctioneer’s hammer fell at €11,000 for a signed first edition of a book by the father of modern technology — bought for University College Cork.

Easter Monday 2016. Somewhere in County Meath. The traffic all the way up to Fairyhouse is brutal. It’s not surprising really.

This is a giveaway budget. In substance and delivery, if not tone, it is a throwback to the halcyon days of that other great smoke and mirrors merchant, Charlie McCreevy, writes Michael Clifford

Relatives of 1916 rebels are due to lead a military parade to mark the 100th anniversary of the uprising, Taoiseach Enda Kenny has announced.

Having rocked them in the Dáil, as the Sawdoctors had it, Michael D certainly rocked them in the Guildhall, and beyond, when he announced during his visit to London that he would be supporting England at this summer’s World Cup in Brazil.

An Post has submitted plans for the GPO to commemorate the 1916 Rising.

The case of 25-year-old Samantha Azzopardi demands compassion rather than condemnation, writes Noel Baker

The Crawford Art Gallery in Cork puts the work of Seán Keating in a modern context, writes Tina O’Sullivan

Descendents of the 1916 leaders will visit the GPO today to highlight an ongoing campaign to save the historic GPO / Moore Street battlefield from destruction.

IT’S HOT AND HUMID in Hell’s Kitchen but in a stuffy classroom on the second floor of the Irish Arts Centre, Elaine Ní Bhraonáin wants to turn the noisy air conditioner off.

Adrian Frazier does a fine job in bringing to life John Ford and others involved in the remarkable links between the Abbey and Hollywood, says Val Nolan

SOMETHING of a revolution occurred at the GPO yesterday and it made the best birthday present ever for Enda Kenny.

An armed gang held three women hostage during the latest so-called tiger kidnapping.

ARNOTTS is a name long synonymous with Dublin even prior to the company’s 18-year sponsorship of the Dublin GAA teams.

A FOOTBALL thought to be from the ‘Bloody Sunday’ Croke Park game between Tipperary and Dublin in 1920 is just one of the items set to make thousands of euro at Mealy’s and Adam’s auctioneers Independence Sale.

THE Fields of Athenry aren’t so lonely now. In fact, in years to come those fields will be packed with more than the 70,000 who were actually present because the bewildered will try convince their grandchildren that — as Max Boyce is wont to say — “I was there”.

More than 100,000 stand in tribute to the Easter Rising dead as a military parade moves down O’Connell Street, writes Political Correspondent Shaun Connolly.

A flag believed to have flown over the GPO during the 1916 Easter Rising has been sold for €600,000.

TWO Sinn Féin members were arrested yesterday during protests against the sale of historical artefacts associated with the 1916 Easter Rising, including the first draft of the Irish national anthem.

Two members of Ogra Sinn Féin have disrupted a huge auction of historical memorabilia taking place in Dublin today to coincide with the anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising.

DUBLIN City Council is to write to the British government calling for the return of a surrender letter 1916 leader Padraig Pearse handed to a British army general after the Easter Rising.

THE IRA formally called off another campaign on Thursday. Sinn Féin leaders have basically got the IRA to affirm what they promised when they signed the Good Friday Agreement more than seven years ago.

Brendan Mooney

THE FBD Insurance Rás has been further boosted with the news that former winner Julian Winn is set to lead a strong Wales Stena Line team and confirmation that Estonia, who have figured prominently in previous years, will also join the line-up next month.

The Czech Republic professional cycle racing team, Elmarco KK Cube, is the first of the six pro teams expected to take part in the FBD Insurance RÁS, to name its squad for the big eight-day international cycle race, which starts from Dublin on 22nd of next month.

The world controlling body for cycling, Union Cycliste Internationale, has appointed Denmark’s Ulf Jensen as president of the race jury for the FBD Insurance Rás 8 Day International Cycle Race.

FOLLOWING the revelation that Minister for Defence Michael Smith does not actually possess a diploma from UCC as his official CV states, surely we should be told if the résumé features other achievements that he also did not actually do.