Your Thursday evening catch-up

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

TOP STORIES

Thomas Kent, one of the executed leaders of the 1916 Rising, is to be given a full State funeral.

A man has been remanded in custody with consent to bail after being charged with stabbing his partner in East Cork earlier this week.

Anti Austerity Alliance TD Paul Murphy has claimed that the decision to press ahead with criminal charges against water protesters is politically motivated.

Ireland is to design and build its very first spacecraft, it has been announced.

And in part four of our special on rural Ireland, Caroline O’Doherty visits O’Gonnelloe in Co. Clare.