President leads tribute to victims of disaster

The nation honoured Titanic’s victims during a solemn ceremony exactly a century to the day after they sailed from Irish waters to their deaths in the North Atlantic.

President Michael D Higgins led the national tribute just yards from the pier in Cobh, Co Cork, then known as Queenstown, where more than 100 Irish passengers boarded tenders which ferried them to the ill-fated liner anchored in Cork Harbour.