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AN ESTIMATED 5,000 people turned out for the military commemoration of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin today.
A wreath was laid outside the steps of the GPO by President Michael D Higgins with the Proclamation of the Republic read out by Captain Sean Coffey of the Irish Defence Forces.
Commandant Jayne Lawlor also spoke to the assembled crowd with Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Minister for Defence Alan Shatter also in attendance.
The official State commemoration was reintroduced in 2006 by the Fianna Fáil-led government, and is now held every year.
Sinn Féin also held a separate Easter Rising commemoration in which party leader Gerry Adams accused the Government of having “an amnesia about the revolutionary period”.
The Louth TD’s party were launching plans for a ’1916 Revolutionary Quarter’ which they say would protect the historic buildings in the area.
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It’s sad that uet again the commemoration was not broadcast live on rte 1 or 2. Our national broadcast service and no coverage on our primary stations.
It appears that a re run of winning streak was more important than to commemorate the event that led to the foundation of our State.
Why would they do that ? That would be saying we have a country at all. When we all know those turn coats standing there are selling it down the swannie with every waking day they have in government.
Go away, you fool.
Amadan, is chuma liomsa cad a deireann tu. Ta tu neamhleor!
Not you, Karen, Sean. Darn this system that makes comments. appear at random
Ok sorry sheik. But essentially isnt Sean saying same thing as i did? Or did i lose something in translation?
I agree that the Republic as envisaged hasn’t been achieved but is it not important to televise the commemoration. I still believe thst the event should be highlighted in a more significant way.
No
Waste of taxpayers money.
Yeats got it right,
“We know their dream, enough to know that they dreamed and are dead.
And was it excess of love that bewildered them till they died.
I write it out in a verse, McDonagh and McBride and Connolly and Pearse, now and in times to be, wherever green is worn, are changed, changed utterly, a terrible beauty is born.”.
Extract from Easter 1916.
Official Ireland wants to pretend it didn’t happen, or if it did it was an aberration that they want to distance themselves from.
There are those who talk of celebration, I think commemoration is a better description.
You don’t see the French trying to downplay Bastille Day, you don’t see the Americans trying to downplay the Fourth of July.
Yet everything in official Ireland, from Enda Kenny as Taoiseach ridiculing the rising, to Gilmores vision of an atheist Ireland, to the Department of Education removing Yeats from the syllabus in the run up to the centenary speaks volumes about its attitude.
If they get their way it could be an occasion with all the substance of blancmange.
I for one would prefer to see it acknowledged properly.
Wow that’s really sad but hardly surprising giving the sniveling brown nosing incompetent self serving idiots that call themselves servants of the Irish people , The sold us out to the bankers, gave little thought to our sovereignty while best positioning themselves in a doggy style before EU policy makers whilst simultaneously sniffing whatever backsides would secure the lining of their own pockets….. But not showing such a milestone of our history on our national channel is a new low ………….
Wow that’s really sad but hardly surprising giving the sniveling brown nosing incompetent self serving idiots that call themselves servants of the Irish people , The sold us out to the bankers, gave little thought to our sovereignty while best positioning themselves in a doggy style before EU policy makers whilst simultaneously sniffing whatever backsides would secure the lining of their own pockets….. But not showing such a milestone of our history on our national channel is a new low …………. Only somebody with the brain capacity of a lettuce would dismiss ur comment….
Waking day? Hmmmm. Your gailge is better
Jeez, do you spend your life moaning and whinging! Get a life!
It’s ‘disgusting’ to see Shatter standing there … He is a traitor to the Irish people. He has shown nothing but disrespect to us and he stands against everything the 1916 martyrs gave their lives for.
Why would he? He is a career politician. He has no blood ties to this land or loyalty. He only has loyalty to his pocket and his countless properties he owns. His parents didnt even live here till they met. They are English. He is English in the base of it all.
I know people who grew up here and consider themselves what ever nationality their parents are. I dont think sorry any person who hasnt got grass roots to a country blood sweat and tears should be able to be a politician. He is also as far as i can see openly aggressive to Catholic religion. And a avid supporter to Israel.
P.S he cant understand what our commemorations are about in the heart,because his family have no routes here and had noting to do with our history. He is just playing a part.
P.s Sorry i should elaborate. I am not saying anything wrong with being English. As i know if i lived in UK and my kids born there. They would be Irish in heart aswell. Its what it is.
He is a business man for his pocket thats it.
Idiot
What are “our commendations” about? Rewarding failure?
How?
You’re talking some shite Karen. Any examples to back up your rubbish?
Have a little history study Reg. I am just saying how i see it.
Put up or shut up Karen. Examples of Shatter being anti catholic or pro Israel. You made the accusation, now back it up.
Karen he is one of the few who isn’t a career politican.
ger look at his property business, he may not be as in aspect you say career politician. But he is.
Anyway what do i care majority of politicians have no souls.
@Reg
How often do you bend down for shatter?
No he is a successful solicitor. He is not a career politican.
Racist or Xenaphobe, which one is it Karen? I see you are a bit of a Sinn Fein fan. Do you have to be pure Irish to join?
lol Has to use on of those things to attempt to attack me pathetic. Hard to be either when my partner is not Irish and he has jewish and muslim and catholic and atheist relations. Now slide back under rock reg
True , shatter is the most expensive solicitor in Ireland. He’s not like those primary school teachers/ publican / farmer types . He’s not a career politician by any stretch of the imagination.
Karen your showing your real bigoted hand now. That kind of silly talk is uncalled for. No matter what party he is to portray an Irishman like that is disgusting. Shame on you. You sound like one of those militant anti choice nutters.
Your views are weak and you can’t back them up with fact Karen, please think before you waffle here again, otherwise people here will make you look like a tulip..which is very embarrassing for you.
@talkingsence
It’s you who’s the tulip, you government licking lackey
An hour later on the same spot it’ll be back to open drug dealing as per usual.
If that is in fact true then the drug dealers should be beaten out of that area and no mercy shown. Im a Unionist myself but such vermin shouldnt be allowed to desecrate these areas with their presence whether its Dublin or any part of the UK.
Yeah the UDA are drug pushers
Do I owe you money or something Nicole?
The government really need to give a grant/tax credit to businesses on O’Connell street and elsewhere in the city centre to improve the look of the shops.
It’s a disgrace that many of the buildings haven’t been painted in ages. Up in Belfast for the day and in and around the city centre the buildings are beautifully restored/painted.
A grant? They can pay for it them bloody selves. The street is half newsagents and fast food joints. They can afford to abide by strict planning guidelines or quit their profitable premises. Win-win.
There need to be even stricter laws, and stricter enforcement. Walk in, give a premises thirty days to do what they’re told or they’re evicted, plain and simple. Dublin is a grotty, filthy disgrace and it needs drastic action.
Great turn out,now id be no good at estimating crowds but i recon there was about 1.5million people there
You’re totally right, except about Belfast. If you go down Royal Avenue, or a couple of streets just off it in the centre, you’ll see a lot of derelict shops. You’ll also see what was, at one time, Ireland’s largest hotel. Belfast is also in bad need of regeneration.
You mean 1.5
We don’t need stricter laws. We just need to enforce the ones we have occasionally.
O’connell street isn’t “a few streets off it” – if you go there you’ll find much worse than badly painted buildings – you’ll find derelict sites with old boarding a and overgrown weeds. No, O’Connell street in this state in 2016 will be an embarrassment. We’ve 2 years to get it right.
Very excited for two years time
We need the commemorations in two years’ time to be non-party political, if people are to feel they can participate.
THERE could be a rebellion before then by the looks of the amount of corruption now known of and whats to come out yet
These parasites have all but destroyed Ireland. Everything those who died for, these people have done their best to destroy.
“mans greed has stole my childhood land, lives torn by traitors hands”
Shame on you, shame on us for allowing it.
Dont forget to invite the Queen or a tax exile or a consortium who own our debt and of course at the tax payers expense
It really cheapens the commemoration when anyone tries to politicize it.
Complex history should just be respected, contemplated and not argued over by armchair experts peddling their version of events, infused from their own family bias.
Ireland remembers? Does it really? Where is the Republic, declared. In the nineteen forties and yet to materialise? I have waited my entire life to live in a Republic. – When can we have it. I am heartsick at this stage, given the level of betrayal, and these gobs hites celebrate??
Sinn Fein have no connection to the ideals of the people of the 1916 rising. They hold a separate commemoration from the state thinking they own repulicanism. They’ll be out in force at the state commemoration in 2016. Cause that’ll be popular…
o’lielly, the expert on what republicans think, who supports a party who handed our economic sovereignty to the germans quicker than you can say ‘two faced weasel from Mayo’.
Yep, no irony there.
SF/IRA have more in common with the 1916 gunmen than any of the mainstream parties. Murdering people in the past seems ok but murdering people in the present or recent past seems unacceptable.
Spammin, why don’t your heroes participate in state commemoration?
O’Reilly .. stop fighting the civil war. It is over. Time for the political parties to disband.
“Spammin, why don’t your heroes participate in state commemoration?”
Because they’re dead and celebrating is not something dead people are associated with doing.
Unless you call spinning in your grave at the sight of a thatcherite invertibrate heading up the commemorations ‘celebrating’.
Unionists/UFF/UDA are the cause of the conflict in the first place. Bigotry, racism and right wing ideology is the norm for this motley crew of killers. Eventually the armed struggles brought them to reason
The Hippocracy of the government commemorating the men and women of 1916 is sickening, they’d be turning in their graves looking at what this shower have done
I do hope that when we celebrate these men and their actions we look at the whole context, national and international, their flaws, and both sides of their legacy, and not raise them up on an unassailable pedestal.
I know some people are gonna disagree with what I’m gonna say and I totally understand and respect that if you do disagree with me. This is sort of unrelated to the 1916 Rising but more got to do with commemorating Irish Independence. I really feel the commemorations of the independence of Ireland is abit depressing and dull, and I know that it’s to be respectful to those who died and I think we should keep the respectfulness of the commemorations and remember those who have died but I also think we should celebrate our little state and not just with St. Patrick’s Day with all the alcohol. Ireland has come along way since we became independent, we’ve had so many sad moments in our history and we never seem to focus on the good bits and our achievements. I think we should have some sort of celebration of the history, culture,music, people (etc) of Ireland and have it as a happy and joyous occasion alongside a respectful commemoration of the dead who fought for our independence.
Dvdmgi, I think I can see what you’re getting at. However, even a hundred years later, I feel that celebration of this “rising ” are premature. Maybe we should wait for as long as it takes to establish a Republic, then we could freely and joyously celebrate?
yes, an all Ireland republic….
What the fcuk was shatter doing their, that creep is anti irish.
It’s a disgrace to see that fraud shatter their, theirs no irish in that creeps blood
You can’t beat a bit of plain old racism. It’s “there’s” or “there is” by the way.
Pickart u are a numpty!
How nice O’C St. looks without all the lowlifes….
Commemorating thugs is quite sick.
Why is always the people with fake names that make the stupid comments?
Why is it that some people write ‘why is always’ when it does not make sense?
Well that is the reason that I never wear a Poppy.
Having some fun trolling there are ya?
For one day, Patrick Lyons, can you give it a rest?
Pickart your a sick fascist thug
This comma from someone that celebrates a 300 year old battle dressed in bowler hats? Give us a break
Don’t forget about the women too they played as much a role throughout the fight for freedom! SF DONT “own republicanism” typical brain dead comments here I suppose they also own the tricolour which is another classic from FF blind leading the blind brigade – comical stuff
5000? 5000 out of 1m! Is that some kind of message?
Does anyone remember the Aircorps Dehaviland Vampires putting on an Easter flypast. ?
5,000 people showed up to remember what lead to the beginning of the Republic of Ireland……embarrasing…..
I think it’s worth noting that the Guard of honour there is made up of reservists.
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