Annual commemoration will end tomorrow as no one has been killed in political violence in Northern Ireland for nearly five years
Minister of the Dublin Unitarian Church Rev Bridget Spain, pictured with the list of names, will begin and end this year’s final commemorative service with a prayer. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw
The church’s management committee has decided that “since nobody has been killed in political violence in Northern Ireland for nearly five years, it is time to bring this act of commemoration, the only religious service of its kind in Ireland, to an end”. Caladh, Greystones, review: In this smart new restaurant, a torch is a prerequisite for reading the menuAt some point it will become unmissable that on many issues Sinn Féin is on much same ground as DUPNames of the dead are taken from the book Lost Lives, by David McKittrick, Séamus Kelters, Brian Feeney and Chris Thornton, beginning with John Patrick Scullion from west Belfast, a 28-year-old Catholic storeman killed by a loyalist gang in June 1966.
In a special addition to the service in 2016, the names of all those who died in Ireland during Easter week 1916 and as a consequence of the Rising were also read.
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