Martin McGuinness ‘committed to holding event for WW1 dead’
Deputy First Minister says it’s ‘only proper and right’ to honour sacrifice made by Irish
Martin McGuinness has re-iterated his commitment to Sinn Féin holding a commemoration later this year for the Irishmen who died in the first World War. Photograph: Dave Meehan/The Irish Times
Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness has re-iterated his commitment to the party holding a commemoration later this year for the thousands of Irishmen who died in the first World War including at the Battle of the Somme in 1916.
Northern Ireland’s Deputy First Minister said it was important that those Irishmen who died in the First World War were remembered for the sacrifice they made as many were Irish nationalists who went to fight in Europe in the hope it would lead to a free and independent Ireland.