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Hundreds of thousands of people turned out to watch | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
the Easter Rising commemorations in Dublin. | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
The military parade was the largest ever staged in the Republic, | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
as our Dublin correspondent Shane Harrison reports. | :00:15. | :00:25. | |
Simple, stirring, sombre and sullen. Just some of the words that describe | :00:26. | :00:34. | |
today's commemoration, which involved the laying of a wreath. It | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
was here that the leaders of the Easter Rising were executed, thereby | :00:41. | :00:48. | |
changing history. The parade, it is estimated, was seen by hundreds of | :00:49. | :00:55. | |
thousands. It paused outside the GPO for the main event. Present were | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
current and former leaders as well as the British ambassador. A | :01:01. | :01:07. | |
representative was on the podium. Children from the four provinces | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
laid flowers at a symbolic gesture of the unshakeable resolve to live | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
together in harmony and peace. An army officer re-enacted the | :01:18. | :01:24. | |
proclamation of a republic. We hereby proclaim the Irish | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
Republic as a sovereign independent state and we lead our lives and the | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
lives of our comrades in arms to the cause of its freedom, welfare and | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
exhortation among the nation. When the president laid a wreath | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
outside the GPO, he did in memory of all those who died in the rising. | :01:46. | :01:54. | |
Spectators appreciated the overall tone of the commemoration. | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
It is a new Ireland we see these days so it was lovely to be here. | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
I am staying here with my family and... | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
The atmosphere is electric. We awaited them so it is only right | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
they be commemorated. The event ended with a fly past and | :02:15. | :02:24. | |
BBC Newsline's Mark Simpson is in Dublin. | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
Mark, it was a very high-profile military parade in the city today. | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
In many ways, the eyes of the world were on Dublin today. The Irish | :02:32. | :02:45. | |
state wanted to send out a message. A strong, confident independent | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
nation, it is. One Government politician pointed out that nearly | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
every soldier belonging to the Irish Defence Forces was on parade today. | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
Nearly every military vehicle. Perhaps a subtle message that the | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
Irish Army is the only legitimate army in Ireland. They are the true | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
successors of the 1916 Irish volunteers. Maybe a subtle statement | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
but a statement none the less. And there was a noticeable | :03:17. | :03:17. | |
absence of Unionists - The Irish Government would say that | :03:18. | :03:33. | |
they would bend over backwards to make the event includes, not just | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
remembering the rebels but also the civilians and police officers who | :03:38. | :03:45. | |
died. I detect a rebel of disappointment that Unionist leaders | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
from Stormont Today not come along. There were a lot of Irish flags | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
being waved and it is five weeks from an election, so they are | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
probably watching the TV, glad they did not come here today. I suppose | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
that is politics. Did everything go according to plan? | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
The big worry was the weather. The sun was there this morning but as | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
soon as the parade finished, it started to rain. I think the Irish | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
Government tonight cannot believe their luck. Now all they have to do | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
is sort out a new coalition here which will not be easy. | :04:21. | :04:27. | |
Marks in sin in Dublin, thank you. -- Mark Simpson in Dublin. | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
Thousands of people have lined the streets of West Belfast | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
The parade, with many wearing period costumes, | :04:38. | :04:38. | |
began at Divis Tower, before it made its way | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
to the Republican plot at Milltown Cemetery. | :04:42. | :04:42. | |
Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams told the gathering, the peace process | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
and the Good Friday agreement had marked a historic shift in politics. | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
Hurts must be healed, divisions ended and the scourge | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
A service of remembrance for the 116 British soldiers who died | :04:53. | :05:02. | |
during the Easter Rising has been held in County Down. | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
The commemoration was organised by the Royal British Legion. | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
Following a parade in Greyabbey, a wreath was laid on the grave | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
of Sandy McClelland, who served with | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
He was 18 years old when he was killed in Dublin in 1916. | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
Attending the event, UUP leader Mike Nesbitt said | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
Unionists must not ignore the Easter Rising centenary. | :05:26. | :05:33. | |
It is important that we do not stick our fingers in our ears and pretend | :05:34. | :05:40. | |
these things never happen and go away. They happened and impact on us | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
today and we have to face up to it. There are different narratives | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
depending on your historical perspective and that is the way | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
history is. Let us not be nigh anybody else their perspective. Let | :05:55. | :06:01. | |
us have respect in the wake we promote our own. -- let us not deny | :06:02. | :06:03. | |
anybody else their perspective. And in golf, Rory McIlroy | :06:04. | :06:05. | |
is one down against Jason Day in the semifinal of WGC | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
Match Play event in Austin, Texas. The winner will face Oosthuizen | :06:09. | :06:10. | |
in the final after he won his match Now, finally, onto the weather | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
forecast for the rest of the Bank Holiday, | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
and here's Barra Best. of the Bank Holiday, | :06:18. | :06:29. | |
that the clocks have gone forward and it be sunny. It will turn chilly | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
for us all. Temperatures will fall close to freezing and some areas as | :06:35. | :06:41. | |
low as -2 or minus three Celsius. There will be frost first thing and | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
possibly the odd stretch of ice but a big improvement on today, on | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
Monday. A chilly start and a fair amount of cloud but the cloud will | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
break with sunny gaps. Scattered showers in the West. Dry and sunny | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
weather, before showers develop from the south-west. Storm Katie will | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
bring wind and rain and across much of Britain it is a dry picture with | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
decent sunshine and showers coming into the south-west later in the | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
day. For Northern Ireland, if you have us with sunshine to end the | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
day, but watch out for the scattered showers. Winds are light and 9-10dC. | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
Low pressure in showers. Winds are light and 9-10dC. | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
with outbreaks of rain at times. Not all the time. Sunshine as well but | :07:29. | :07:30. | |
low pressure remains in control | :07:31. | :07:41. |