O’Neill lays wreath at Cenotaph in Belfast on Remembrance Sunday
Stormont’s First Minister Michelle O’Neill has participated in the Remembrance Sunday ceremony at Belfast City Hall – the first time a senior Sinn Féin figure has taken part in such an event in Northern Ireland.
Ms O’Neill, who said her attendance is a demonstration of her determination to fulfil her pledge to be a “First Minister for all”, laid a laurel wreath at the Cenotaph in Belfast.
A message on the wreath read: “As First Minister, I wish to take our society beyond old limits, to build bridges and to a shared future together.
“Today I remember all lives lost in the horror of war and conflict – past and present.”
Ms O’Neill attended the commemoration alongside DUP deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly, who also laid a wreath.
Hundreds of people lined the streets outside City Hall as Armed Forces members…
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