Complex sentence: Later they also issued the following statement to make the anniversary of the 1916 Rising.a A century on and the IRA armed actions against Britain and her agents are (as) legitimate as they were in 1916.
Split into simpler sentences: Later they also issued the following statement to make the anniversary of the 1916 Rising. a century on and the IRA armed actions against Britain and her agents are (as) legitimate as they were in 1916.