An ongoing and chronological look back at 1916 and some of the behind the scenes planning of the Rising which was certainly "NOT in the news" of the time.

An Officer and a Gentleman, that was once how the eloquent Pat Fanning, former president of the GAA, described his former Mount Sion team-mate Vin Baston, and a fitting description it was, the popular and ever-courteous Baston having reached the rank of Commandant in the Irish Defence Forces before his untimely death in 1963 at the age of 44.

There’s no doubt about the big event on the Irish greyhound calendar this week, it just has to be Saturday’s Town View Foods Champion Stakes final at Shelbourne Park.

I SUPPORT of the suggestion by Nora Comiskey (Letters, June 14) to rename Dublin Airport after Tom Clarke to coincide with the Easter Rising centenary.

THE late former Labour leader Brendan Corish refused to attend a State funeral because a State car was not sent to his Wexford home to drive him to the ceremony in Dublin.