SF Belfast mayor takes part in Armistice Day event

The first Sinn Féin mayor of Belfast to take part in an Armistice Day commemoration has described the decision to attend as the hardest of his political career.

Máirtín Ó Muilleoir made history by participating in a two-minute silence for the war dead at the cenotaph at City Hall.

Republican politicians have previously boycotted November’s remembrance events in the North due to the association with the British military. However, past Sinn Féin mayors have laid non-poppy wreaths at the Belfast cenotaph to mark the Jul 1 anniversary of the Battle of Somme.