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Last week, we were talking motorbikes - one in particular from 1959 that Davey Murdoch in Ballymoney was looking for. Cecil Smith heard his appeal – and suddenly it clicked – that was the bike that he had road for several competitions around Ireland. This week, we catch up with Davy Murdock to see if Cecil’s help has him any closer to fathers beloved bike.

Nigel Henderson is an expert on this period of time - the Easter Rising and the Great War. His research has been exhaustive, especially in the stories of some of the men from here who died with the British Army during the rising.

Near Ballygawley, in the townland of Rosgavey, the Bygone Farmers Association Big Day Out is about to get started. But before the cock crows and it all gets underway - Anne Marie catches up with one of the organisers, Allan Rainey.

Traditionally on Easter Sunday, people would get up early to watch the sun rise - believing that the sun danced in the sky with joy to herald the resurrection. Local writer Madeline McCully remembers going out in the afternoon, as well after church with a picnic to an ancient fort in the North West, An Grianán.

Diddley bows, teepees and Longboats.. Need we say any more? This weekend they will all be present, plus so much more on the shores of Lough Neagh, as part of the Good Life Festival.

On this day, Easter Saturday 1916, a group of republicans from Tyrone and Belfast  gathered in a hall in Coalisland. Their intention was to take part in what they hoped would be an insurrection throughout Ireland. Dr Fearghal McGarry, a historian at Queens University, tells us how the day panned out..