The Proclamation of the Irish Republic has been read out at Dublin's GPO this afternoon to mark 109 years since the Easter Rising.

Invited guests, Government leaders and the President were among those honoured at the ceremony.

On the same street 109 years ago, the proclamation of the Irish Republic was read out.

Today the street was lined with Army, Naval service and Air Corps personnel this afternoon as the Easter Rising is commemorated.

To mark the occasion Captain Conor Gibbons, from Barna in Galway and based in Defence Forces HQ, read the proclamation as the flag above the GPO was lowered to half mast.

GPO commemoration of 1916 Rising. Image: Alex Rowley/Newstalk.

President Michael D. Higgins, Taoiseach Michael Martin, Tánaiste Simon Harris, Lord Mayor Emma Blain and a number of government officials were present and greeted with a guard of honour.

Dermot Ford's father fought in the 1916 Rising.

"He was afterwards rounded up with other volunteers in the Rotunda hospital," he said.

"Then they were marched down the North Circular Road to the cattle boats and shipped to England.

"He was interned then in Stafford prison."

The ceremony wrapped up just in time for the rain, with the tricolour standing proudly above the GPO at full mast.

Main image: GPO commemoration of 1916 Rising. Image: Alex Rowley/Newstalk.