Remembrance Sunday: Michelle O'Neill first senior Sinn Féin figure to attend ceremony

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Remembrance Sunday: Michelle O'Neill first senior Sinn Féin figure to attend ceremony
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The first minister will attend the Belfast ceremony and lay a laurel wreath at the Cenotaph.

The first minister is to become the first senior Sinn Féin figure to take part in an official Remembrance Sunday ceremony in Belfast

Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn will attend a service in Enniskillen in County Fermanagh, while junior Northern Ireland Office minister Fleur Anderson will be at the the service in Belfast. Irish President Michael D Higgins will attend at the annual service at St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin.Justice Minister Naomi Long paid tribute to the prison officers who had lost thier lives in service alongside Beverley Wall, Prison Service director general and David Kennedy, Director of Prisons and Chairman of the Central Benevolent Fund

The ceramic wreath, with the King's insignia at the centre, was hand-made by prisoners, a number of whom are ex-servicemen.

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