Defence forces’ part in Easter parade cost over €200,000

THE PARTICIPATION of the defence forces in this year’s Easter Sunday military parade down O’Connell Street cost the taxpayer €214,663.

More than 100,000 people attended the 90th anniversary commemoration of the 1916 Easter Rising.

It was the first military parade along Dublin’s main thoroughfare since the advent of the Troubles in the late 1960s.