Sinn Fein vice president says attendance will show she is a ‘First Minister for all’
is to participate in the Remembrance Sunday ceremony at Belfast City Hall – the first time a senior Sinn Féin figure will take part in such an event in Northern Ireland.
“So when I got this invitation to attend remembrance events this weekend, I thought it was important to take that invitation up because that for me is the fulfilment of my commitment to those people out there from a British and unionist identity who hold this important Remembrance Day very carefully to their own heart.
The republican party has gone on to participate in Armistice ceremonies in Belfast while Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald and Ms O’Neill have both attended an annual church service in St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin to mark Remembrance Sunday. The no-warning blast at the town’s war memorial, as crowds gathered for the annual ceremony, killed 11 people – with a 12th victim dying years later having never woken from a coma.
“We’re 26 years post the Good Friday Agreement and our own peace agreement, and how precious that is to us all,” she said.
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