A senior Fianna Fail figure said he doesn't believe it would be appropriate to invite a member of the British royal family to the 1916 commemorations.

CROWDS thronged the streets and guns and tanks abounded but Dublin was a far quieter place than it was 90 years ago - mainly because the public address system didn’t work.

THE thought of Michael McDowell and colleagues on the reviewing stand outside the GPO for a reinstated 1916 Easter military parade fills me with trepidation.