Thousands pay respects for Armistice centenary in Northern Ireland
Last updated 11th Nov 2018
Commemorations are under way around the world to mark the moment 100 years ago when World War One finally ended.
The main remembrance ceremony will be held at the cenotaph at Belfast City hall at 11 o'clock on Sunday morning.
An Armistice Day service will also be held at St Anne's cathedral later in the day.
Over 100 people gathered in Enniskillen before dawn, with locals gathering to hear the sound of a lone piper.
The Wilfred Owen poem Anthem For Doomed Youth was read before ministers from the four main churches in the town led prayers of reflection.
The Last Post was played on the bugle that sounded the charge of the 36th Ulster Division at the Battle of the Somme in 1916, before a two-minute silence was observed.
The Queen's representative, the Lord-Lieutenant for County Fermanagh, Viscount Brookborough gave the oration.
"All of our communities served willingly and suffered equally throughout the long years of that war and I am delighted to see so many people here this morning,'' he said.
"The Armistice was signed a few minutes after 5am on that 11th day, and we are in Enniskillen, the western most point of this celebration this year.
"Enniskillen was the first town to hear of the Armistice through a radio operator scanning the airwaves and he heard, in Morse code, the message which was transmitted in Paris and he translated it.
"So Enniskillen was that first town, some two-and-a-half hours before anyone else heard it.''
The event, which was organised by the Inniskillings Museum, concluded with an historical interpretation of the moment the message of the Armistice was received in Enniskillen in 1918.
Museum curator-manager Neil Armstrong described the event as an "evocative start to our community commemorations''.
At 10.50am, an act of remembrance will take place at the Cenotaph in Enniskillen, followed by a service at St Macartan's Cathedral.
There is an added poignancy to Remembrance Sunday in Enniskillen, where the event in 1987 was devastated by an IRA bomb close to the Cenotaph during the annual commemorations.
The atrocity killed 11 men and women. Another man died after spending 13 years in a coma from his injuries.
Another service will take place in the town on Sunday evening at St Michael's Church, before the Last Post is played at St Macartan's Cathedral.
At 7pm, the UK's most westerly beacon of light will be lit in the grounds of St Macartan's by Viscount Brookborough
The news of the Armistice reportedly broke in Enniskillen before London, Edinburgh, Manchester or Dublin on November 11 1918 thanks to the local wireless operator.