O'Neill was the first senior Sinn Féin figure to take part in an official Remembrance Sunday ceremony.
O'Neill was the first senior Sinn Féin figure to take part in an official Remembrance Sunday ceremony
"I've committed to being a first minister for all and I will live up to that at every turn," she said. In a message on the wreath that she laid, O'Neill wrote: "Today I remember all lives lost in the horror of war and conflict - past and present."Alex Maskey became the first Sinn Féin lord mayor to pay his respectsOn 1 July 2002 he laid a laurel wreath at the monument two hours ahead of the main council ceremony to commemorate the anniversary of the Battle of the Somme.
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