Irish CND commemorate Hiroshima bombing

Irish members of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament have gathered in Dublin to commemorate the 57th anniversary of the US bombing of Hiroshima in Japan.

The bombing on August 6, 1945, killed an estimated 200,000 people in total, the vast majority of them civilians.

It was the first time any nation used a nuclear bomb. John de Courcy-Ireland, a member of the Irish CND, said a lot of powerful people have not learned anything from the complete destruction of Hiroshima.

"Certain politicians in different parts of the world have still not learned the lesson of history that wars do not solve problems, they create them," he said.

"We in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament are very distressed about what appears to be the clownish and bullying attitude of the President of the United States."