The Newspaper Review opened to the strains of David Bowie's Rebel Rebel this morning, as presenters Ivan Yates and Chris Donoghue took a serious look at a row that's breaking out over how to appropriately commerate the rising.
Heatons is selling a chocalate bar produced especially the mark the centenary of 1916, and it is being sold amid allegations of commercialising the historic event.
Turning to the front pages of the papers,
All of the papers cover the sentencing hearing at Portlaoise Circuit Court of the drunk driver who was jailed for 7.5 years over the death of Ciarán Treacy (4) last year.
Ivan was particularly moved by Kathy Sheridan's piece in The Irish Times: "Silence and Sadness in Court as killer gets jail time".
That paper also covers the corporate tax take - "a permanent windfall for us" according to our presenter.
Irish Examiner: "Prison staff turn blind eye to gang activities - officers also under pressure to conform to unprofessional behaviour".
"Emergency Department taskforce laboured a failure as trolley numbers rise".
The Irish Independent leads with "Schools forced to cut Catholic classes" over the launching of a public consultation on how religion should be taught in school.
"Bank bans withdrawal below €700 in branches" the other main story in that paper.
The Irish Sun: "Sorry we blinded you" - that's the story of a barman who went in for routine surgery, but came out with no sight.
Irish Daily Mirror "Depression didn't kill my Robin, dementia did".
Irish Daily Mail "Couple in their nineties are left on A&E trolleys" about how administrators at Tallaght hospital treated an elderly pair.
Rehab's 2014 Annual Report gets coverage this morning. Chris Donoghue described the losses of over €6 million last year as devastating. 50 staff meanwhile lost their jobs. But a handful of people who left got big pension pots of something in the region of €320,000. Two members of staff managed to get their names redacted from the financial disclosures.
The Daily Mail has a story about how the amount of Manuka honey on the market doesn't match the amount of Manuka honey being produced in New Zealand every year leading to the suggestion that ordinary honey is being incorrectly labelled as the high value Manuka honey.
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