Remembrance Sunday: Commemorations take place across Northern Ireland

Belfast's City Hall
Author: Gareth McCulloughPublished 13th Nov 2022

Northern Ireland Secretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris and Taoiseach Micheal Martin attended a Remembrance ceremony in Enniskillen 35 years on from an IRA bomb at the event.

Eleven people died on the day of the attack at the town's war memorial in 1987, with another victim dying years later having never woken from a coma.

It has become a recent tradition for the Taoiseach to attend the Enniskillen event.

In Belfast, Lord Caine represented the UK Government at the Cenotaph, with Irish cabinet minister Heather Humphreys also in attendance.

Hundreds gathered both inside and outside the grounds of Belfast City Hall to observe the wreath-laying ceremony.

Commemorations have been held across Northern Ireland to remember those who have died in military conflict.

In England, King Charles honoured the nation's war dead for the first time as monarch and laid a wreath at the Cenotaph in London.

Thousands of veterans, military families and the public packed Whitehall for the ceremony and watched as Charles placed his floral tribute at the base of the memorial on Whitehall.

In recent years, Charles had performed the role on behalf of the Queen as the Prince of Wales, but as the first chimes of Big Ben rang out at 11am on Sunday and a two-minute silence began, he stood before the Cenotaph in his role as head of state.

Charles laid his wreath, its design a tribute to ones used by his late mother and grandfather George VI and it featured his racing colours, after buglers from the Royal Marines played the Last Post.