Tributes to ‘shared sacrifice’ of war dead

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

For the first time since the 1940s, the Irish ambassador to Britain took part in the focal-point wreath- laying ceremony in London as Dublin upgraded its participation in the centenary year of the beginning of the First World War.

Downing Street invited ambassador Dan Mulhall to lay a wreath to mark the “shared sacrifice” of Irish and British soldiers in world conflicts.