Church bells tolled and officials laid wreaths across Europe on Armistice Day to pay tribute to the millions of soldiers killed during World War I.

TAOISEACH Enda Kenny and Minister for Foreign Affairs Charlie Flanagan represented the Republic yesterday at Remembrance Sunday events in Northern Ireland.

TOMORROW is Remembrance Sunday, when all the dead of all wars will be remembered with dignified and solemn ceremonies, especially at the Cenotaph in London.

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Fitting tributes

The Queen led Britain in honouring members of the armed forces killed in conflict as Remembrance Sunday services took place around the country yesterday.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny led tributes to Irish and British war dead as fallen soldiers were remembered.

The Queen led Britain in honouring members of the armed forces killed in conflict as Remembrance Sunday services took place around the country and in former war zones today.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan have laid wreaths at solemn Remembrance Sunday events in the North.

An Irish diplomat has laid a laurel wreath at the London Cenotaph for the first time in almost 70 years.

Avenue Gabriel rewarded the patience of her connections with a win in the Listed Clodovil E.B.F. Garnet Stakes on a mixed card at Naas yesterday.

The Government will lay a wreath in London on Remembrance Sunday to reflect on the thousands of Irish people who fought and died in the British army, the Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan has said.

The Government will lay a wreath in London on Remembrance Sunday to reflect on the thousands of Irish people who fought and died in the British army, the Foreign Affairs Minister has said.

President Michael D Higgins has welcomed the fact that Ireland will be free of the troika when he embarks upon his historic state visit to Britain next year.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny will join British prime minister on a visit to a First World War memorial in Belgium next month.

The Taoiseach Enda Kenny and the Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore attended Remembrance Sunday events in Northern Ireland yesterday.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has laid a wreath of green laurels at the war memorial in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, to mark Remembrance Sunday.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore will be amongst those taking part in services in Northern Ireland to mark Remembrance Sunday.

A controversial Sinn Féin-backed march commemorating two IRA bombers in the Co Tyrone town they were intending to target has been restricted by the Parades Commission.

One of Scotland Yard’s most senior police officers will be quizzed by MPs over the investigation into the murder of soldier Lee Rigby.

A task force for tackling radicalisation in the UK set up by the British Prime Minister in the wake of soldier Lee Rigby’s murder is to meet monthly in a bid to deal with extremism head on, a Downing Street spokesman has said.

A second man is to appear in court charged with the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich, Scotland Yard said.

A man who lost his father, after the IRA killed Remembrance Sunday worshippers, marked the 25th anniversary of the attack by appealing for no return to violence.

Enniskillen will remember those who died in an IRA bomb 25 years ago today.

Gordon Brown today denied behaving aggressively towards Rebekah Brooks when he telephoned her expecting an apology for negative coverage, only to be told more was to come.

Tens of thousands of Irishmen who gave their lives fighting for Britain during the First World War were honoured by the Queen at a Dublin commemoration steeped in symbolism.

POLICE believe that crowds of students protesting about tuition fees last week were infiltrated by “organised groups of hardcore activists and street gangs bent on violence”, Home Secretary Theresa May said yesterday.

Charlie Gilmour, the son of Pink Floyd frontman David, was released on bail today after being arrested over the violent disorder which broke out during last week’s tuition fees protest in London.

Two more people arrested by British police investigating disorder during the tuition fee demonstrations were in custody today.

MILLIONS fell silent yesterday led by services in London to remember those who have died in war.

A woman branded “Britain’s most disgusting person” by war heroes after urinating on a war memorial is due back in court today after fleeing her sentencing hearing last week.

VETERANS yesterday demanded a woman be jailed later this week after she was caught urinating and performing a sex act on a man sitting on a war memorial.

British Liberal Democrat Party leader Nick Clegg today said he would fight for "fundamental" reform of Britain's electoral system in talks with other parties on the shape of the future government, following Thursday's inconclusive general election.

Former British Labour leader Michael Foot has died, aged 96, Justice Secretary Jack Straw announced today.

I FEEL your pain. That was Gordon Brown’s message yesterday to the relatives of soldiers killed in Afghanistan.

Former soldiers from Ireland and the North stood shoulder to shoulder today to honour servicemen killed in the First and Second World Wars.

THIS weekend’s picnic/fest at Leinster Lawn, outside Leinster House in Dublin, will give the public a close-up view of the most elusive memorial in Ireland, the Cenotaph on Leinster Lawn.

The replacement of a photographic tribute to the 11 victims of the IRA’s Enniskillen Remembrance Sunday bombing in the town’s fire station provoked fury today.

Britain's war dead are to be remembered and honoured this Armistice Day.

An IRA bomb victim today hit out at the removal from a fire station wall of a tribute to officers who helped in the aftermath of an explosion.

More than 200 Orange Order members from the North joined their London colleagues today in a march to commemorate the 200th birthday of the Grand Lodge of England.

THE first-ever national memorial to Irish soldiers who died on duty will be sited in Dublin’s Merrion Square, it emerged today.

The first-ever national memorial to Irish soldiers who died on duty will be sited in Dublin’s Merrion Square, it emerged today.