Family members of some of the heroes of 1916 are expected to attend a special wreath-laying ceremony at the National Monument on Grand Parade in Cork on Easter Monday.

A Kildare man with a gambling debt who in "a moment of weakness" stole €9,500 from his employer has been given a one year suspended sentence by Judge Patricia Ryan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Kildare man who, in "a moment of weakness", stole €9,500 from the company he worked for in order to pay off a gambling debt has been remanded on bail pending sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.