Centenary of lockout commemorated

The centenary of the famous Dublin lock-out has been marked with a state commemoration at a city site synonymous with Ireland’s largest ever industrial dispute.

President Michael D Higgins joined other dignitaries and hundreds of onlookers and tourists in O’Connell Street, which was called Sackville Street in 1913, to mark the 100th anniversary of a police baton charge on a workers’ rally in the early days of the lock-out.