I visited Dublin again in 2016 to experience some of the centenary events commemorating the 1916 Easter Rising, Ireland’s bloody six-day armed insurrection by Irish republicans against British rule. Click here to read my story in the Otago Daily Times or if too big for your screen, try the online version.

Back in July 2016 my wife Yvonne Fogarty and I were interviewed by Bryan Crump on his “Nights” programme – Travel Odysseys. To hear this entertaining story, click here.