{"id":381703,"date":"2026-04-04T13:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T13:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/381703\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T13:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T13:50:09","slug":"ocallaghan-attends-easter-rising-commemoration-in-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/381703\/","title":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Callaghan attends Easter Rising commemoration in Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An event to commemorate the 1916 Easter Rising has taken place in the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin this morning.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony was organised by the 1916 Relatives Association, the only non-State body granted permission to hold a commemoration in the Garden of Remembrance.<\/p>\n<p>Minister for Justice Jim O&#8217;Callaghan attended the ceremony where he laid a wreath alongside Lord Mayor of Dublin Ray McAdam, the 1916 Relatives Association, the National President of ONE, the National Graves Association and other military veterans groups.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"People hold flags on the steps at the Garden of Remembrance\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/00242aa0-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nThe ceremony took place in the Garden of Remembrance, a day before a State ceremony outside the GPO<\/p>\n<p>A Colour Party of Defence Forces Veterans in period uniform performed the military elements of the commemoration accompanied by a military piper.<\/p>\n<p>A State ceremony to commemorate the 1916 Rising will be held outside the GPO tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An event to commemorate the 1916 Easter Rising has taken place in the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-381703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}