Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Northern Ireland Secretary Sir Chris Bryant have laid wreaths at the Remembrance Sunday commemoration in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, where hundreds gathered to pay their respects to the war dead. The service took place on Sunday 8 November, 39 years to the day after an IRA bomb killed 11 people at the same ceremony in 1987.

Sir Chris laid a poppy wreath on behalf of the UK Government, while Mr Martin placed a laurel wreath at the memorial. The Taoiseach's attendance continued a tradition begun by former taoiseach Enda Kenny in 2012, when he became the first Irish head of government to attend the Enniskillen service and lay a wreath at the memorial.

On 8 November 1987, eleven people who had gathered to pay their respects to the war dead were killed and dozens injured in a no-warning IRA blast minutes before the Remembrance Sunday ceremony was due to start. A twelfth victim died 13 years later, having never woken from a coma. The bombing remains one of the most searing events of the Troubles, and the annual service at the town's war memorial has become a symbol of cross-community and cross-border remembrance.

In 2024, then-taoiseach and current Tánaiste Simon Harris did not attend the Enniskillen memorial, citing the absence of a representative from the Northern Ireland Executive. His Fine Gael party was instead represented by then-minister Heather Humphreys. Mr Martin's presence this year restores the Taoiseach's attendance at the service.

Stormont's First Minister Michelle O'Neill, of Sinn Féin, did not attend remembrance events in an official capacity on Sunday, amid the fallout from the Drumcree parade dispute. Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly, of the DUP, has stopped joint engagements with Ms O'Neill and, under powersharing conventions, is also blocking the First Minister from attending engagements in an official capacity on her own.

A Sinn Féin spokesperson said remembrance and commemoration was a very sensitive issue that should be above party politics, and described the DUP's decision to block Ms O'Neill's attendance as deeply regrettable, saying it politicised the Remembrance ceremony.

A range of other events to pay tribute to the war dead took place across Northern Ireland on Sunday. In Belfast, the Lord Mayor, Róis-Máire Donnelly of Sinn Féin, laid a laurel wreath at the cenotaph, as did the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Sarah Owen, and Irish government minister Frank Feighan.

On Sunday afternoon, Irish President Catherine Connolly was due to lay a wreath in remembrance of all those who have died in war at the National Service of Remembrance at St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin. Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald was also expected to attend the Dublin service. The King led the national service at the Cenotaph in London earlier in the day, where around 10,000 veterans took part in the Royal British Legion's march-past.