Taoiseach lays wreath for Remembrance Sunday in North

Enda Kenny in Enniskillen tells personal impact of IRA Poppy Day bombing

Taoiseach Enda Kenny lays a laurel wreath at the war memorial in Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh. Photograph: David Young/PA Wire

Taoiseach Enda Kenny lays a laurel wreath at the war memorial in Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh. Photograph: David Young/PA Wire

Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore today participated in Remembrance Days ceremonies in Northern Ireland laying green laurel wreaths among the red poppy wreaths at the war memorial in Enniskillen and the cenotaph in Belfast.

Mr Gilmore joined the DUP First Minister Peter Robinson for the main Poppy Day ceremony outside Belfast City Hall while Mr Kenny travelled to Enniskillen for the second year in succession to remember the war dead and particularly those who died in the Enniskillen bombing 26 years ago.

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