We look at the timeline of events during Easter Week in 1916.

The State’s 100th anniversary commemoration of the 1916 Rising takes place at the graveside of the 14 executed insurrection leaders at Arbour Hill, Dublin, tomorrow.

Standing solemnly at the same site and same time as the first shot rang out on Easter Monday 1916, Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan stooped to carefully place a wreath beside Dublin’s City Hall.

On Easter Saturday 1916, Tom Clifford sat down in his room in 4 Gardiner St to write a letter to his brother Dan. The letter has recently been discovered by their niece, Carmel Clifford.

A Philip Smith visiting the jacks in Cassidy’s pub in Dublin either got lucky or pretended he had and felt the need to inscribe it on the bathroom door for posterity.

A Dublin man was jailed for life by the Special Criminal Court yesterday for the murder of veteran criminal Eamon Kelly two years ago.

It involved jumping jacks, push-ups and copious amounts of tea…

Irish YouTuber, Clisare, set up some challenges for some of her video-sharing pals - Melanie Murphy, Sean Connolly, Rory O’Donnell - to complete, called the Ultimate Conjoined Twins Challenge.

A woman who as a child was repeatedly sexually abused by a neighbour over a six-year period has been awarded €350,000 by the High Court.

The High Court has ordered a man in his 70s to pay his former neighbour €350,000 for sexually abusing her when she was a child.

“Your song has ended, but the melody lingers on” — the touching Twitter tribute posted by Regina Ní hAilpín just hours after her brother’s body was found in London’s Leicester Square on Thursday evening.

A Dublin man charged with the murder of veteran criminal Eamon Kelly appeared briefly via video link at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

A Dublin man charged with the murder of veteran criminal Eamon Kelly can appear at his next court hearing via video link, the Special Criminal Court has ruled.

Gardaí investigating the murder of the drug dealer Eamon Kelly have arrested six people.

A suspected dissident republican has been charged with the murder of one of Ireland’s most notorious criminals.

Sergiu Ciobanu (Clonliffe Harriers) broke the course record when winning the Bord Gáis Energy Cork City Marathon in 2010 and 2011, and that’s his target again as he bids for an unprecedented three in-a-row today.

Ireland’s Olympic selectors have been given a marathon headache, as a fourth athlete has made the qualifying mark for the women’s marathon at London 2012.

I HEARD the great American sports writer Jerry Izenberg blow the dust of some great tales this week on Newstalk’s Off the Ball programme.

LINDA BYRNE (Dundrum/South Dublin) claimed her place at next year’s Olympic Games in London when she finished sixth in yesterday’s National Lottery Dublin Marathon in 2:36:21 which was just inside the “A” standard set by Athletics Ireland at 2:37.

A novice marathon runner has qualified for the London Olympics after her first run over the distance.

Kenyan Geoffrey Ndungu won today's Dublin City Marathon in a time of 2 hours 8 minutes and 31 seconds.

LINDA BYRNE will add to an already exciting women’s field in the National Lottery Dublin Marathon this morning with the national championships incorporated in the event.

FOUR men who brought High Court challenges against the legality of their prison detention on public order charges arising out of protests over the visit of Queen Elizabeth have been released on bail.

AFTER big runs over 1,500m (3:41.02) at the weekend and 10,000m (28:32.30) two weeks ago, Ciaran Ó Lionáird is all set for a return to Stanford on May 1 to tackle 5,000m.

ON the sort of windswept afternoon only a jump racing fan could endure, a horse owned by a Limerick farmer in partnership with a Kildare businessman made the headlines in Clonmel.

OVER 3,000 runners will go to the starting line for tomorrow’s “Ballycotton 10”, Ireland’s most enduring and successful road race.

NEWLY-CROWNED national senior cross-country champion, Mark Kenneally (Clonliffe Harriers), is among the entries for the phenomenon that is the Ballycotton 10 road race.

DERVAL O’ROURKE is out of next weekend’s World Indoor Championships in Doha, Qatar with a hamstring injury.

MARK KENNEALLY had the honour of leading the Irish challenge home when he finished eighth in the senior men’s race at the SPAR European Cross-Country Championships at Santry Demesne, as the other more established members of the team flopped.

ALISTAIR CRAGG has made no secret of the fact that he fancies his chances in tomorrow’s SPAR European cross-country championships at Santry Demesne and his arrival yesterday added to the air of excitement that surrounds the Irish camp, situated just a stone’s throw from what is a resplendent course.

ALISTAIR CRAGG will get his place on the Irish senior men’s team for the SPAR European cross-country championships if he proves his fitness in tomorrow’s 5k road race in San Jose.

MARY CULLEN underscored her medal potential, while Andrew Led with signalled his intentions for next month’s SPAR European Cross-Country Championships with sweeping victories in the Woodies DIY National Inter-Counties cross-country championships held over Kilbeggan Racecourse yesterday.

SPRINTERS Paul Hession (Athenry AC) and Derval O’Rourke (Leevale AC) will captain the Irish team to compete in the European Team championships in Slovakia this weekend.

THE Taoiseach faced increasing pressure last night to order a complete overhaul of Fás after it emerged five of the agency’s executives spent nearly €1 million on first-class hotels, restaurants, bars and other lavish facilities.

John Brennan from Carlow fought off stiff competition to be crowned the MBNA Kick Fada All Ireland champion for 2007 earlier this afternoon at Bray Emmets GAA Club with a winning kick of 67 metres.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has dismissed an appeal brought by two Dublin men against their conviction for IRA membership.

A priest who braved attacks on his home to say Mass at Harryville during the loyalist protests has died.

Scuffles broke out at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today during the sentencing hearing of two men convicted of membership of an illegal organisation.

Two men arrested during a Garda investigation into the activities of dissident republicans were convicted by the Special Criminal Court today of membership of an illegal organisation.

The Special Criminal Court has reserved judgment in the trial of three men accused of memebrship of an illegal organisation.

A Protestant church leader met murdered Catholic schoolboy Michael McIlveen’s family today – and urged other youths not to risk their lives through pointless sectarian bravado.

Two Detective Chief Superintendents have given evidence at the Special Criminal Court of their beliefs that three men accused of being Real IRA members were members of an illegal organisation.

A Garda ballistics expert has told the Special Criminal Court that he found no evidence of any explosive substances in a car that had been stopped at gunpoint on the N4 near Mullingar.