Leaders honour Ireland's military heroes

President Mary McAleese and Taoiseach Bertie Ahern joined hundreds of people today at a service for Irish soldiers who died in war or on peacekeeping duty with the United Nations.

At the commemoration service in hot sunshine in the courtyard of the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, ex-servicemen and women from across the island of Ireland, serving regiments, senior politicians and members of the public gathered to remember the nation’s war dead.