The Pakistani ambassador to Ireland has pleaded for the community here to "stay positive."

The PSNI think four men tried to murder an elderly woman found critically injured in her garden in County Tyrone.

The High Court's finding that buildings and sites on and around Dublin's Moore Street are a 1916 Rising battlfield site comprising a national monument was "strongly supported" by evidence, including from historians and two former directors of the National Musuem, the Court of Appeal has been told.

This is the best hotel food I’ve eaten in many a long moon, says Joe McNamee.

€16,000 worth of cigarettes and tobacoo have been seized in Dublin today.

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Communications Minister Denis Naughten has confirmed that the proposed broadcasting charge will not be introduced.

The Cabinet has agreed to appeal a High Court ruling that a number of buildings on Moore Street be classified as a national monument.

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The Government should consider removing the rights of people to object to proposed developments as it is hugely costly, causes delays, and is not necessary, the Irish Planning Institute’s annual conference heard.

Almost 5,000 cigarettes and 9.5kg of tobacco have been seized in the Moore Street area of Dublin.

A judge has refused to grant a stay on his orders preventing work on buildings in Dublin's Moore Street area.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

Campaigners have called on the Government not to try to overturn a judge's ruling which expanded the Moore Street national monument site.

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.

Wreaths will be laid at seven locations around Dublin which were key to the Easter Rising as commemorations marking the 100th anniversary of the rebellion continue across the country.

Relatives of those who fought and died in the Easter Rising will not rule out taking legal action to stop a wall being unveiled at Glasnevin cemetery which commemorates the British army dead alongside their descendants.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

Joe O'Reilly’s development company has been added as a party to one of the strands of a legal action aimed at protecting buildings on Dublin’s Moore Street.

Sinn Féin deputy leader Mary Lou McDonald has declined to repeat the claim that Thomas ‘Slab’ Murphy is a good republican after a BBC Spotlight programme raised fresh concerns over his history.

It is important to record that it was entirely due to the sterling efforts of campaigners that the State finally moved to purchase The 1916 National Monument at 14 to 17 Moore Street.

Hundreds of people have gathered at the GPO on Dublin's O'Connell Street to save what they say is an iconic 1916 site.

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A free walking tour app of the key sites of the 1916 Easter Rising is set to be launched next April.

The following 1916 buildings of National historic importance will be destroyed and lost forever should the NAMA Project Jewel auction of the 1916 Moore Street Battleground proceed.

Minister Aodháin O’Riordáin in a Dáil reply (July 9) on the proposed NAMA auction of the last extant 1916 battlefield referred to no’s 14 -17 Moore Street as being “the only pre-1916 buildings on the street”.

The 1916 relatives are still seeking a meeting with NAMA regarding the derelict state of the 1916 national monument at 14-17 Moore Street, Dublin and their financial backing for a planning application to destroy its surrounding 1916 battlefield. To date, NAMA has refused to meet us citing the confidentiality of clients’ business affairs.

Failte Ireland has finally woken up to the potential of historic tourism in our capital city. (Irish Examiner, June 23).

Significant recent developments in the planned renewal of Moore Street described by the National Museum as ‘the most important historic site in modern Irish history’ are to be welcomed as we approach the Centenary of The Rising.

Those campaigning for the preservation of the last extant 1916 battlefield are relieved that the State has at last acted to preserve nos 14 - 17 Moore Street.

Minister for Heritage, Heather Humphreys is reported to be “deeply disappointed” with the decision of Dublin City councillors to vote against proposals for a 1916 interpretive centre on Moore Street.

UCD professor of modern history, Ronan Fanning called for a “shameless celebration” of the Easter Rising centenary. 1916 relatives would, at this late stage, settle for a mere celebration.

A group of angry protesters gathered outside the GPO in Dublin this evening, loudly chanting anti water-charge slogans as political leaders announced plans for the 1916 centenary celebrations.

Plans for the commemoration of the 1916 Rising will be launched for public consultation in the coming weeks. The Minister for Arts and Heritage, Heather Humphreys, was finalising a draft schedule of events which will be launched after the budget.

The Government is being urged not to do a 'rush job' in regenerating Dublin's Moore Street, just to have it ready for the Easter Rising centenary celebrations