President Mary McAleese tonight met First Minister the Rev Ian Paisley at a war museum in the North.

THE letter from Dr Tom Quinn (Irish Examiner, February 12) recalled the ceremonies last year in France commemorating the Irishmen who died in World War I.

LAST September the villages of Ginchy and Guillemont in the Somme region of France joined to commemorate the courageous efforts and grievous losses suffered by the 16th Irish Division to liberate both villages from German occupation in September 1916.