President Mary McAleese and Taoiseach Bertie Ahern joined hundreds of people today at a service for Irish soldiers who died in war or on peacekeeping duty with the United Nations.

DEATH camp survivors, President Mary McAleese, government ministers, nearly two dozen ambassadors and various religious leaders gathered last night to remember the Holocaust.

PRESIDENT Mary McAleese laid a wreath in honour of Irishmen and women who died in wars or on duty with the United Nations yesterday.