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The names of all of those killed during the Troubles will be read aloud at a special service in Dublin for the last time later today.
The commemoration, at the Dublin Unitarian Church on St Stephen’s Green, is in its 22nd and final year.
At midday, the names of the nearly 3,600 people who died as a result of the conflict in Northern Ireland will be read out. It will continue until approximately 3pm.
The church’s management committee decided that since there has been nobody killed in political violence in Northern Ireland in nearly five years, that it was time to end the commemoration.
John Patrick Scullion will be the first name to be read out. The Catholic storeman was shot by the UVF in west Belfast in May 1966.
The service will end with the name of Lyra McKee, the 29-year-old journalist shot dead by dissident republicans in Derry in April 2019.
Minister of the Dublin Unitarian Church, Reverend Bridget Spain, will open and close the service with a prayer.
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