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Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has laid a green laurel wreath on Remembrance Sunday in Enniskillen.<\/p>\nTaoiseach Leo Varadkar has laid a green laurel wreath on Remembrance Sunday in Enniskillen.<\/p>\n
In November 1987, an IRA Poppy Day blast in the Co Fermanagh lakeland town killed 12 and injured 68.<\/p>\n
Northern Ireland Secretary Julian Smith and DUP leader Arlene Foster also placed floral tributes at the town\u2019s war memorial.<\/p>\n
The deputy US counsel general in Belfast left a wreath which quoted former US president Ronald Reagan.<\/p>\n
It said: \u201cTheir lives remind us that freedom is not bought cheaply.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt has a cost, it imposes a burden.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd just as they whom we commemorate were willing to sacrifice, so too must we \u2013 in a less final, heroic way \u2013 be willing to give of ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n
Veterans from both sides of the Irish border attended.<\/p>\n
Crowds packed the narrow street around the memorial.<\/p>\n
Wreaths were left by RAF air cadets, the commanding officer of the Royal Dragoon Guards from Catterick Garrison in Yorkshire, a Regimental Association of the Royal Irish Regiment, the local council, Ulster Unionist Party, the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Regimental Association and Mrs Foster.<\/p>\n
She wrote: \u201cIn proud and grateful remembrance of all those who made the supreme sacrifice.\u201d<\/p>\n
The IRA bomb detonated during the Remembrance Sunday ceremony in 1987.<\/p>\n
Eleven people were killed in the bombing. A 12th, Ronnie Hill, went into a coma and died 13 years later. The Queen and then British prime minister Margaret Thatcher sent their sympathies.<\/p>\n
The Ballyreagh Silver Band, who played at the 1987 Remembrance Sunday ceremony, provided music for this year\u2019s ceremony.<\/p>\n
On Remembrance Day 1997, former Sinn F\u00e9in President Gerry Adams apologized for the bombing.<\/p>\n
In 2012, Enda Kenny became the first Taoiseach to attend Enniskillen\u2019s Remembrance Sunday ceremony, coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the blast.<\/p>\n
It is the second time Mr Varadkar has taken part in the event, and the eighth year that the Government has been represented.<\/p>\n
The Taoiseach also read a prayer at a service in St Macartin\u2019s Cathedral.<\/p>\n