ARMISTICE DAY HAS been marked with acts of remembrance across Ireland.
In Dublin, an event was held at Glasnevin Cemetery marking 103 years since the end of World War One.
It was attended by Deputy Lord Mayor Joe Costello, Lord Lieutenant of Belfast Fionnuala Jay-O’Boyle, British ambassador to Ireland Paul Johnson as well as the French, Canadian and German ambassadors.
Also in attendance was Major General of the Defence Forces Anthony McKenna and John Connolly from the RAF Association Ireland.
An ecumenical service was led jointly by Fr Richard Sheehy and the Rev David Oxley.
Some seven wreaths were laid while a piper played a lament.
Another gathering took place at Belfast City Hall, led by the Royal British Legion where the Deputy Lord Mayor Tom Haire and High Sheriff Michael Long were part of a delegation at the Garden of Remembrance.
A crowd gathered in the grounds as the Last Post was played before a two-minute silence was observed at 11am.
The Royal Irish Regiment previously held a service of remembrance at St Anne’s Cathedral in Belfast on Sunday.
It was attended by Haire as well as the ambassador of the Republic of Korea Kim Gunn, who laid a wreath in memory of soldiers from the Royal Ulster Rifles killed during the Korean War.
The two-minute silence observed on Armistice Day marks the end of the four-year conflict in 1918 where an agreement between Germany and the Allies was made “on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month”.
The annual commemoration was disrupted last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, with many opting to mark the date at home.
Meanwhile there was condemnation following the erection of a republican poster at the Enniskillen war memorial on Wednesday night, where acts of remembrance are more poignant following an IRA bomb attack in the town on Remembrance Sunday in 1987 which killed 12.
DUP MLA Deborah Erskine said: “For an organisation to erect these posters ahead of the acts of remembrance takes a special kind of twisted nature. They should front up and explain their need to be so insensitive and offensive.”
The poster was removed later on Wednesday night.
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