‘Hero and visionary’ Collins remembered across nation

Schoolchildren from the city and county marvelled at the fashion of military equipment on display, from Michael Collins’s 1922 armoured car Sliabh na mBan to the present-day €1m Moog armoured personnel carriers.
The 1st Brigade, under the command of Brigadier General Derry Fitzgerald, put on displays of military prowess in the parade ground and soldiers showed fascinated children a wide variety of weaponry.