President Higgins leads Easter Rising commemorations as Covid-19 victims remembered

President Higgins lays a wreath at a group of 16 birch trees planted by himself and Sabina in honour of the revolutionaries executed after the 1916 Rising in the gardens of Áras An Uachtaráin. Picture: Maxwells

- with reporting from Press Association

A commemoration ceremony to mark the 104th anniversary of the Easter Rising has taken place in Dublin.