The views of the resident population counted for naught whether they supported the rising or not. I doubt if a consensus of opinion was taken ............... unless you of course, with your wonderful insight into military intelligence, know different.

Certainly the views of the population meant nothing to the rebels.

As to a consensus Rags who was it the citizens of Dublin were cheering as they hauled that gun through the streets? When food supplies started to run low throughout the city who was it that opened the warehouses and distributed food to where it was needed? Give you a hint it certainly was not Pearse, Connolly & Co.

When they abandoned the GPO and moved into Moore Street they again deliberately put civilians at risk as when they moved in the civilians tried to flee, unfortunately nobody on the rebel side cared enough to let the soldiers know that, finally to prevent further loss of civilian life and in an impossible situation Pearse and Connolly decided to surrender - after six days the rebel Irish Government made a decision with the best interests of the people in mind - six effin days too late.