Atrocity prayers include bombers

The bomb, which exploded on 8 November 1987, killed 11 people

Prayers have been said for the IRA bombers who killed 11 people in Enniskillen on Remembrance Sunday in 1987.

Flowers were laid and a minute's silence held at the war memorial where the IRA bomb exploded without warning.

Methodist minister Rev Kenneth Robinson said he wanted the bombers to "remember the pain they inflicted".

He said he hoped they would come to a moment where they would admit what they had done and face the consequences.

No-one has ever been charged in connection with the no-warning bomb attack, which was one of the worst atrocities of the Troubles.

The blast injured 63 people, many of whom have never fully recovered.

Shooting

During the special remembrance service, prayers were said for "those who constructed, transported, planted and primed the bomb".

Presbyterian minister Rev David Cupples referred to the shooting of the policeman outside a school in Londonderry.

He said it "saddens us, shocks us and could discourage us" that there are still those in the community whose hearts were "filled with a dark and diabolical vision of life".

Enniskillen-based DUP MLA Arlene Foster said the community had worked hard to heal the wounds caused by the attack.

"You know it was very bizarre at the time because Enniskillen and Fermanagh was a community that always got on together and always worked along together," she said.

"However, there was always a very small minority who wanted to spoil that and they succeeded very much here for some time in Enniskillen.

"But the community has gradually come back together again and are very strongly standing against all sorts of terrorism and will continue to do so."