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A boat which holds significance in relation to the 1916 Easter Rising goes on display at the National Museum today.

Campaigners have renewed calls for state intervention to stop the “disrespectful” demolition of the area surrounding the historic 1916 Rising battlefield site.

Sinn Féin will launch a bid next week to save the Dublin site where the leaders of the 1916 Rising spent their final few hours of freedom before surrendering.

THE director of the National Museum has been asked by the Minister for Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht to assess an application by developer, Joe O’Reilly, to complete building works on the historical section of Dublin’s Moore Street.

AN anti-government protest has been organised to coincide with the state’s Easter 1916 commemoration outside the GPO in Dublin tomorrow.