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Troubles victims' names read out | Troubles victims' names read out |
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Two soldiers and a police officer murdered by dissident republicans last month are among those being remembered at a ceremony in Dublin. | |
The names of more than 3,500 people who have died as a result of the Troubles were being read out during a service in a church at St Stephen's Green. | |
The annual act of commemoration at Dublin Unitarian Church is now in its eighth year. | The annual act of commemoration at Dublin Unitarian Church is now in its eighth year. |
The names of the victims were being read out in alphabetical order. | |
The first name read out was John Patrick Scullion, murdered by the UVF in 1966, the last, Constable Stephen Carroll, murdered by the Continuity IRA last month. | |
The organisers of the commemoration said the reading of the names "illustrates powerfully the terrible, random nature of death in war and civil conflict". |