Last 1916 rebel HQ ‘allowed degenerate to slum’

The final headquarters of the 1916 rising has been allowed to degenerate into a slum, the Dáil heard.

Sinn Féin’s Gerry Adams made the claim after President Micheal D Higgins laid a wreath at Arbour Hill in memory of the rebels.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny stopped short of calling the national monument a slum, but agreed it was “not edifying” to look at and he would not like to take visitors from abroad there.