Brendan Ryan (Labour)

It is the only word I would dispute with our friends from the DUP — their willingness to allow one party to take over that word. It is time we took it back from them.

I would be reluctant to cause the slightest bit of rancour about the 1916 commemorations, even though I recorded a slightly dissenting view in one of the newspapers recently. Like others, I have received an invitation to attend a solemn requiem mass for the souls of those who died for Ireland in the 1916 Rising.