As part of the Ireland 2016 Centenary programme official ceremonies to commemorate the executions of the fourteen Leaders of the 1916 Rising will take place between the third and the twelfth of May at the Stonebreakers Yard in Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin.

An t-Ardmhéara Críona Ní Dhálaigh officially opened Richmond Barracks at a special ceremony in Inchicore today.  One of nine ‘Permanent Reminders’, Richmond Barracks has been redeveloped by Dublin City Council as part of the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme. It will open to the public in June 2016 as an interactive multimedia tourist attraction which will trace the story of the site from military barracks, to housing estate, to school.

NUI Galway will host the major national academic conference of the 1916-2016 commemoration next year, on the theme, Ireland 1916-2016: The Promise and Challenge of National Sovereignty. The conference will run 10-12 November 2016 and will include academic contributions from a broad range of Ireland's universities and institutes of technology, as well as from a number of leading international figures.

The Limerick Writers’ Centre is seeking submissions for an anthology to be published in the spring of 2016 to mark the centenary celebration of the 1916 Rising.

Mayors and Chief Executives from all 31 Local Authorities today met with the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Heather Humphreys and the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government, Alan Kelly, to share details of local county plans being developed as part of the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme

Secret Dublin Metropolitan police files dating from 1915–1916 have today for the first time been made publicly available online by the National Archives, providing an insight into government and police thinking at the time.

Details of the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme, the national and international initiative to mark the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising have today been outlined at an event at the National Museum of Ireland in Collins Barracks.

The National Monument at numbers 14-17 Moore Street is to be bought by the Government at a cost of €4million to allow for a 1916 Commemorative Centre to be developed at the site.

Artists and arts organisations across Ireland are invited to propose ambitious national arts projects which will form part of Ireland 2016, the Government's initiative to commemorate the 1916 Rising.

€One million in Government funding has been awarded to Local Authorities for 2015 so they can play a key role in Ireland 2016, the national and international initiative to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Rising following a meeting today of the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Heather Humphreys TD and Minister of State, Aodhán Ó Ríordáin TD, with the City and County Managers Association (CCMA), to discuss Ireland 2016. 

Ireland 2016, a national initiative which includes a programme of events to mark the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising was launched in Dublin on Wednesday by Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Minister Heather Humphreys, An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, An Tánaiste Joan Burton, and Minister of State at the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Aodhán Ó Ríordáin.

A Sinn Féin councillor is calling on Dublin City councillors to reject a Council managers' proposal for redeveloping Moore Street.

éirígí general secretary Breandán MacCionnaith today addressed a crowd of 500 people at the socialist republican party’s annual Easter commemoration at the republican plot in Milltown Cemetery, Belfast and urged those present to rededicate themselves to the struggle for a socialist republic in Ireland and said that both states in Ireland were engaged in a war against working people.