ADDRESSING a gathering of rebels’ relatives in the incongruous top-hat-‘n’-tails surrounds of Dublin’s RDS, President Michael D Higgins thanked historians and descendants of the Rising’s participants for rescuing from oblivion the individual stories of the Irish state’s seminal revolution. He singled out RTÉ broadcaster Joe Duffy for mention, citing his Children of the Rising, which was… Read more »
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