President notes solemn occasion to ‘give honour and hold in memory those we have lost’
read a poem she had written for the event, The Light Returning, which she said was in “gratitude for surviving these past two years”.
Earlier, President Michael D Higgins paid tribute to frontline and emergency workers as he and his wife Sabina held a special remembrance ceremony at Áras an Uachtaráin. “Today we have to the forefront of our minds the more than half a million people in this country who lost loved ones during the pandemic, and all those, too, living abroad who have endured painful separation from loved ones at home in Ireland at times of great distress and grief.
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