The teenager who broke into Leinster House targeted a rare copy of the 1916 proclamation, it has emerged.
The Irish Mirror has established that the 16-year-old wrote graffiti on a framed original proclamation, which is in the main entrance foyer of the historic building. The proclamation was signed by former President Sean T O’Kelly – who took part in the 1916 rising at the GPO in Dublin’s O’Connell Street.
Sources have told the Mirror the teenager – who gardai believe accessed the parliament on Saturday by jumping over a wall from the adjoining National Gallery of Ireland on Merrion Square – took the framed proclamation off the wall and wrote graffiti on the back of it.
