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.

European citizens’ civil liberties will be restricted in the wake of the Paris atrocities which have been deemed Europe’s 9/11.

Several hundred people attended a minute’s silence at the French embassy in Dublin where President Michael D Higgins called for people not to fall into the terrorists’ trap.

The 800-acre site for the three-day national ploughing championships, which begin at Ratheniska, Co Laois, tomorrow is ready to host Europe’s largest outdoor agricultural event.