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Taoiseach and Tanaiste in Northern Ireland for Remembrance Sunday

The Taoiseach and Tánaiste are take part in events in the North today for Remembrance Sund...
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11.29 11 Nov 2012


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Taoiseach and Tanaiste in Nort...

Taoiseach and Tanaiste in Northern Ireland for Remembrance Sunday

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The Taoiseach and Tánaiste are take part in events in the North today for Remembrance Sunday.

Enda Kenny will participate in the service at the Cenotaph in Enniskillen where an IRA bombing killed 11 people 25 years ago.

Meanwhile Eamon Gilmore will lay a laurel wreath at Belfast City Hall.

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He will be the first Irish minister to take part in a Remembrance Sunday service in Belfast.

Dublin service

While President Michael D. Higgins will attend St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin today for Remembrance Sunday.

He will lay a wreath at the war memorial site located at the cathedral as part of the service.

Remembrance Sunday is also known as ‘Poppy Day’.

It is a memorial day observed in Commonwealth countries since the end of World War I to remember the members of their armed forces who died in the line of duty.

 

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