{"id":23987,"date":"2021-11-14T10:26:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-14T15:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irishexaminerusa.com\/wp\/?p=23987"},"modified":"2021-11-15T10:29:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T15:29:08","slug":"micheal-martin-lays-wreath-at-remembrance-service-in-enniskillen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irishexaminerusa.com\/wp\/?p=23987","title":{"rendered":"Miche\u00e1l Martin Lays Wreath At Remembrance Service In Enniskillen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin during the Remembrance Sunday service in Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh (PA)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin has lain a wreath to mark Remembrance Day at a service in Enniskillen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Martin continued a tradition begun by former Taoiseach Enda Kenny in 2012 by attending the commemorative event in the Co Fermanagh town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He laid a laurel wreath at the war memorial on a foggy Sunday morning before standing in silence to pay his respects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was joined by Northern Ireland Education Minister Michelle McIlveen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former Northern Ireland First Minister Arlene Foster, a native of Enniskillen, attended the event in a private capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She stood alongside relatives of those killed in the Poppy Day massacre of 1987, at the Clinton Centre, the location where the bomb that killed 12 people went off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conservative MP and Northern Ireland Minister of State, Conor Burns, was also in attendance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wreaths were laid by dignitaries from the British army, the emergency services and representatives from US and Polish consuls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hundreds of people turned out to mark the occasion on Sunday, after numbers were restricted last year due to the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They observed two minutes\u2019 silence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event took place 34 years on from the IRA\u2019s infamous \u201cPoppy Day\u201d bomb attack at the Enniskillen war memorial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eleven people who had gathered to pay respects to the war dead were killed and dozens more were injured in the no-warning blast in 1987 just minutes before the event was due to start. A 12th victim of the bombing died 13 years later having never woken from a coma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Kenny became the first Taoiseach to attend a Remembrance Day service in the North when he took part in commemorations at Enniskillen in 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a separate ceremony in Belfast, Lord Mayor Kate Nicholl laid a wreath at the cenotaph in the Garden of Remembrance at City Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Northern Ireland First Minister Paul Givan was also in attendance.<\/p>\n

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