Enniskillen memorial in storage due to controversy over its location

Local Catholic Trust has yet to decide whether monument can be placed at bomb site

People attending a ceremony to unveil the new memorial to the 12 victims of the IRA’s 1987  bomb attack in Enniskillen, on Wednesday. Photograph:   Niall Carson/PA Wire

People attending a ceremony to unveil the new memorial to the 12 victims of the IRA’s 1987 bomb attack in Enniskillen, on Wednesday. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire

A Catholic woman married to a man who lost his father in the 1987 Poppy Day bombing has said she is considering leaving her church because of a controversy over the memorial to the victims of the IRA attack.

The memorial to the 12 who died as a result of the bombing and the scores who were injured was unveiled and dedicated in Enniskillen on Wednesday.

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