Wreaths laid to mark 100 years since burning of Custom House

Minister Darragh O’Brien, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage laying a wreath at the Centenary of the Burning of the Custom House Remembrance Event (Maxwells/PA)

Commemorative wreaths have been laid to mark 100 years since the burning of the Custom House in Dublin.

The city-centre building burned for days after IRA volunteers targeted it in a strike against British rule during the War of Independence in 1921.