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The Easter Rising.

The Easter Rising (Irish: Éirí Amach na Cásca),[also known as the Easter Rebellion, was an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week, 1916. The Rising was launched by Irish republicans to end British rule in Ireland and establish an independent Irish Republic while the United Kingdom was heavily engaged in World War I. It was the most significant uprising in
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AS IRELAND PREPARES to commemorate the 1916 Rising centenary, 360,000 people are expected to converge Dublin’s city centre.

An Easter Parade will take place on Easter Sunday, proceeding from Dublin Castle to Parnell Square. On Easter Monday, the city centre will host dozens of events, installations and public lectures as part of the ‘Reflecting the Rising’ commemorations.

The sheer numbers of people converging in the city centre may well be unprecedented. The NTA have prepared a special public transport plan to get people in and out of the city safely.

The gardaí have given the following simple advice to people attending events in Dublin, ‘In a nutshell: If you live outside the M50, try to leave your car outside the M50. If you live inside the M50 try to leave your car outside the Grand Canal on the Southside or outside the North Circular Road on the Northside’.

Unprecedented numbers in the city centre

Under normal circumstances, the convergence of such unprecedented numbers in the city centre raises a number of public safety and public order issues.

The Garda website reminds people that it is an offence to consume alcohol in public places and advises parents and guardians to ‘come early, large crowds are expected’.

Furthermore, the gardaí advise that parents should write their telephone numbers on their children’s arms, in case of ‘accidental separation’. They advise ‘write it on their clothing tags, their arm or a piece of paper and tell them where it is!’

Depending on the weather and other factors, the Easter 2016 commemorations may see the largest number of citizens gathered in a public space since Pope John Paul II visit to Ireland in 1979. Unlike the open spaces of the Phoenix Park however – where one million people gathered during the Pope’s visit – up to half a million people may gather in the confines of Dublin’s city centre.

Aside from the public order and public safety dimension to such a large gathering, there is a heightened security threat attaching to the weekend of Easter 2016.

The recent ‘New IRA’ attack on a prison officer in Belfast has prompted the Assistant Chief Constable of the PSNI, Stephen Martin, to state that dissident republicans are intent on marking the centenary of the Rising by ‘killing police officers, prison officers or ...........

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