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Remembrance Sunday marked across Northern Ireland

Events have been taking place across Northern Ireland to mark Remembrance Sunday.

Belfast’s ceremony began with a two-minute silence at 11:00 GMT and Belfast Lord Mayor Tracy Kelly laid a wreath on behalf of the citizens of Belfast.

Michelle O’Neill attended the event and laid a laurel wreath at the Cenotaph at Belfast City Hall in her role as first minister for the second year in a row.

Last year she became the first senior Sinn Féin figure to take part in an official Remembrance Sunday ceremony.

Deputy First Minister Emma Little Pengelly also laid a wreath.

Other ceremonies were held in cities, towns and villages across Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.

DUP Leader Gavin Robinson is in London at the National Service of Remembrance at the Cenotaph to lay a wreath at the monument in central London as part of the service to remember those who died in conflict.

King Charles III led a two-minute silence at the service and also laid a wreath.

He was joined by other senior royals and political leaders, including Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, at the ceremony.

The Taoiseach (Irish PM) Micheál Martin laid a wreath at the war memorial in Enniskillen during the Remembrance Sunday ceremony.

It also remembers the 12 people killed in an IRA bomb attack on the Remembrance event in 1987.

On Thursday the Justice Minister Naomi Long today attended the Northern Ireland Prison Service Annual Memorial Service at the Memorial Garden at Hydebank Wood to remember officers who lost their lives in the course of duty.


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