{"id":134118,"date":"2025-11-11T14:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T14:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/134118\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T14:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T14:35:10","slug":"armistice-day-marked-by-political-leaders-in-northern-ireland-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/134118\/","title":{"rendered":"Armistice Day marked by political leaders in Northern Ireland \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Armistice Day has been marked by commemorations in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/northern-ireland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/northern-ireland\/\">Northern Ireland<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">At Stormont, political leaders gathered for a remembrance event in the senate chamber of Parliament Buildings, where a bugler played the Last Post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Afterwards, Assembly Speaker Edwin Poots led a procession through the Great Hall of the building to the war memorial close to the entrance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">There Mr Poots laid a wreath to mark the moment the guns fell silent at the end of the first World War, as did the head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service Jayne Brady and Assembly chief executive Lesley Hogg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Several political figures also laid wreaths, including DUP leader Gavin Robinson, UUP leader Mike Nesbitt, Alliance Party leader Naomi Long, SDLP leader of the opposition Matthew O\u2019Toole and TUV MLA Timothy Gaston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">DUP deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly accompanied her party leader during the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">She had cited the occasion as a reason she was unable to attend Tuesday\u2019s inauguration ceremony for new President Catherine Connolly in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Elsewhere in Belfast, the armistice was marked at the Cenotaph on the grounds of City Hall. \u2013 PA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Armistice Day has been marked by commemorations in Northern Ireland. At Stormont, political leaders gathered for a remembrance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[78087,26188,61,60,49233,46907,43,2443],"class_list":{"0":"post-134118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-edwin-poots","9":"tag-gavin-robinson","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-mike-nesbitt","13":"tag-naomi-long","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-northern-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}