Irish people spent €208.2 million during Easter week as the grocery market saw record spending, according to new data.

It wouldn’t be Easter week without it.

The Garda Commissioner believes copy-cat gangs are the reason for the recent increase in ATM thefts.

Ciara McDonnell rounds up the best events and activities for children and families this Easter.

Father Fintan Gavin, 53, will become the fourth bishop to be appointed by the Vatican to join the Diocese of Cork and Ross, since it was formed in 1958.

As Six Nations’ Grand Slams go, the one Rory Best collected amid the snowflakes at Twickenham beats them all.

Ryanair expects staff to strike during Easter week in Ireland or Portugal, chief executive Michael O‘Leary has said, as talks with some unions over formal recognition and improved conditions falter.

Easter week is traditionally teachers’ unions conference time. It’s somewhat unusual that the various trade union groups representing a particular profession would have a particular focus season, largely driven by the school calendar. 

Thousands of protesters demanding new elections have faced off with security forces who launched tear gas and stood shoulder-to-shoulder blocking roads in the Venezuelan capital.

After just missing the attack in Nice, Joe Chester is happy to be making music, writes Steve Cummins.

Are you a budding garden designer or fancy a €5,000 facelift for your garden? Super Garden on RTÉ One is gearing up for a ninth series and looking for you to take part. 

The testimony of a man aged 91, who died earlier this year, has provided an intriguing insight into the strong republican affiliations of a group of set dancers photographed at a crossroads in Ireland more than 100 years ago.

This informative book should be a must for smart history teachers who want to engage their students, but it has much broader appeal too.

Seán Hurley, from Drinagh, was Michael Collins’ brother-in-law and they were also good friends while working in the civil service in London. Hurley then got a job in the fabled Harrods store before he was called back to Dublin, alongside Collins, writes Ray Ryan

Since 1898, Dublin Fire Brigade ran the ambulance service and the emergence of the log book of the brigade’s headquarters in Tara Street from 1916 bears witness to the efforts to deal with the battle waging on the streets and the people affected, writes Las Fallon

We look at the timeline of events during Easter Week in 1916.

It was not by chance that Pádraig Pearse was the first rebel court-martialled and killed, writes Ruán O’Donnell

Recognition of their relatives’ role was warmly welcomed by families of Cork’s Irish Volunteers and Cumann na mBan members in 1916 and the War of Independence.

President Michael D Higgins and senior government ministers have led the tributes to the 1916 fallen at the Kilmainham Jail site where they were executed in an emotional reminder of the deaths of the Rising leaders.

How this week 100 years ago was spent by the main players behind the Rising, based largely on observations of their movements by police.

1916 letter provides a link to only Cork man killed in the Rising, writes Niall Murray

Most people associate Easter with eating too much chocolate, not with the Easter Rising centenary commemoration.

The tactics used by the Fingal battalion foreshadowed those used in the War of Independence, writes Paul Maguire

Paul Maguire on the spectacular success of the fifth battalion of the Dublin Brigade against a large Royal Irish Constabulary force in Ashbourne, Co Meath

Anti-Treaty leader’s personal steel was cloaked by his inoffensive character, writes Conor McNamara

Despite being cleared of any dereliction of duty, the failure of the Cork Brigade to take part in the rebellion weighed heavily on the minds of Tomás MacCurtain and Terence MacSwiney, writes Gerry White

Life-sized Ice Age mammals, a monstrous Easter egg scavenger hunt and a new vintage carousel are just some of the attractions at Tayto Park, which opens on March 18 for its sixth season. 

This single sheet of notepaper gives a vivid impression of the atmosphere in Dublin during the 1916 Rising.

John A Murphy suggests there is far less to the Proclamation of the Republic than is often

When Eleanor Burke eventually asked her grandmother why she never spoke about her membership of Cumann na mBan in Kerry, Ellie Rice replied: “We learned not to speak or say anything because one idle word during that period could cause somebody’s death.”

A pair of incredibly rare Kinsale silver trefid spoons which Weldons will bring to the National Antiques and Vintage Fair in Limerick.

Fiann Ó Nualláin describes the heroic work of Seedsavers in Co Clare who are saving our native flora and fauna. 

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

Mick O’Dea is steeped in the traditions and lore of the turbulent period around Easter 1916, writes Richard Fitzpatrick

No one, not the IRA, not Sinn Féin, not Fianna Fáil nor Fine Gael, nor any party or organisation, owns or has a monopoly on the Rising or its legacy, writes Danny Morrison.

RTÉ’s new Easter Rising drama, Rebellion, has three of the most talented actresses of their generation, writes Ed Power

A series of improvements are being planned for the ambush site in mid-Cork where Michael Collins was shot dead by Anti-Treaty Forces on August 22, 1922.

I was glad to read M O’Flynn’s letter (Irish Examiner, August 7) regarding the heroic Fenian Jeremiah Ó Donnabháin Rossa, and those who followed in his footsteps, from the men of Easter Week to today’s republicans.

Journalist and historian, Kevin O’Brien, suggests that almost a hundred years after his death, Thomas Kent is making us look into our past in new ways as the nation prepares to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the event which sparked the birth of the Irish Republic.