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Enda Kenny and Micheál Martin looking very friendly at the 1916 Easter Rising centenary ceremony in Arbour Hill earlier. RollingNews.ie RollingNews.ie

IRELAND

• Today marks 100 years since the Easter Rising began.
• Irishman Joshua Molloy was released from prison in Iraq.
• There were calls again for JobBridge to be scrapped.
• Police in Northern Ireland said a missing Derry woman and her daughter might be in Dublin.
• A man is due in court in Cork over the seizure of a shotgun and ammunition.
• Newly-elected TD Katherine Zappone defended her travel expenses.
• A new cycle lane proposal could make it much easier to get around the city on a bike.
• We found out who Ireland’s richest people were.

Palestinian 12-year-old Dima al-Wawi, imprisoned by Israel for allegedly attempting to carry out a stabbing attack, hugs her father after her release from prison. Majdi Mohammed / AP/PA Majdi Mohammed / AP/PA / AP/PA

WORLD

#OHIO: A manhunt continued after a shooting rampage which left eight members of one family dead.

#RIP: Prince was cremated and laid to rest in a secret location.

#ISRAEL: The youngest female Palestinian prisoner was released.

INNOVATION

• A solar impulse plane managed to fly across the Pacific at night with no fuel. 
• Astronomers have spotted a giant galaxy orbiting our own. [Business Insider]

PARTING SHOT

Now that we’ve passed the official centenary of the Easter Rising, commemorations will begin to wind down. This reflection on events in Ireland since 1916 is a reminder that we still have a way to go to become the Republic the leaders of the rebellion envisaged.

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