Watch highlights from events across the country to commemorate the 1916 centenary

Events are taking place all over Ireland today to mark the 100th anniversary of the 1916 rising. 

Watch highlights from events across the country to commemorate the 1916 centenary

Below are some of the video highlights from the day's commemorations from Cork and other areas around Ireland.

Keep an eye here as we add more content throughout the day.

Local historian Tim Crowley with one of the guns from the Aud, at the unveiling of a monument to the Lyre Company volunteers

Denis O,Brien, Chairman of the Kilbrittain  1916 Centenary Commemoration Garden speaking at its opening on the April 23.

Fr. Ted Collins PP, St. Patrick's Church speaking at the grave of the late VerRev.Thos J.Canon Magner who was murdered by the British Forces in 1920.

The official opening of Michael Collins house in Clonakilty, Co Cork, as part of the 1916 commemoration.

Seamus Twohig at the 1916 commemoration of the march from Lyre to Inchigeelagh where volunteers were to collect arms.

Con McCarthy speaking about Irish Volunteer JJ Walsh from Kilbrittain, Co Cork.

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