Laurel: Ambassador Dan Mulhall lays a wreath during the
Remembrance service at the Cenotaph, on Sunday
Laurel: Ambassador Dan Mulhall lays a wreath during the
Remembrance service at the Cenotaph, on Sunday
AFTER a formal invitation by the British Government, the Irish
Republic was represented at the Cenotaph in London on Sunday for
the first time since the declaration of the Republic in
1949.
The Irish Ambassador to the Court of St James, Daniel Mulhall,
laid a wreath of laurel, followed by the Commonwealth High
Commissioners with poppy wreaths. Minutes earlier, the bands had
played two melodies by the Irish composer Thomas Moore, "The
Minstrel Boy" and "Oft in the Stilly Night". Ambassador Mulhall
said that the invitation and act of remembrance represented the
desire to remember the Irish dead, and reflected the relationship
that now existed between the two countries.
In Ireland, the Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, was in Enniskillen for
the wreath-laying ceremony close to the site where an IRA bomb
exploded in 1987.