Scot in line for top Irish title

By The Newsroom
Published 10th Oct 2010, 16:57 BST
Updated 11th Oct 2010, 00:46 BST
AN EDINBURGH-born socialist republican martyr who played a major role in the 1916 Easter Uprising is in the running to be voted the greatest ever Irishman.

James Connolly, who was born in Edinburgh in 1868 to Irish parents, has made it on to the five-strong shortlist for a TV competition to find Ireland's greatest historical figure.

Connollyfaces stuff compeition from four other contenders - fellow republican Michael Collins; former president Mary Robinson; Nobel Prize winner and former SDLP leader, John Hume, plus U2 lead singer and global justice campaigner Bono. The winner will be revealed on 22 October.

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