RTÉ to screen live State funeral of 1916 rebel Kent

The State funeral of executed 1916 rebel Thomas Kent will be shown live on RTÉ TV later this month but the public can pay their respects, on the evening before, just yards from his resting place of the last 99 years.

Full military honours will be provided at the funeralwhich starts at 1.45pm on Friday, September 18, at St Nicholas Church in Castlelyons near Fermoy, Co Cork.

He will then be buried in the Kent family plot outside, not far from the house at Bawnard where Head Constable William Rowe was killed during a Royal Irish Constabulary attempt to arrest the local Irish Volunteers leader and his brothers during a post-Rising round-up on May 2, 1916.