With Covid-19 restricting crowds at the annual Easter Commemorations for the second consecutive year, wreaths were still laid at graves and memorials across Fermanagh.

A video was put together by Sinn Féin this year, showing members paying their respects while the 1916 Proclamation was read out.

Sinn Féin MLA Jemma Dolan, visited the commemorative stone of Joe MacManus, Antoin Mac Giolla Bhrighde and Ciaran Fleming, has highlighted the promises of a shared Ireland that is laid out in the 1916 Proclamation.

Speaking after there was no County Commemoration for Easter for the second year in a row the Fermanagh South Tyrone MLA, who is also Chairperson of Joe McManus Cumann said: “This Easter, like last year, Sinn Féin in Fermanagh could not hold our county commemoration for Easter.

“But like every other year our activists laid wreaths across the county at the graves and memorials of our Patriot Dead. These ceremonies were not pre-advertised so not to attract any crowds.

“The Proclamation is a mission statement of Irish republicanism.

“With its promise of sovereignty and freedom; of equal rights and equal opportunities; of civil and religious liberty for every citizen; and a pledge to cherish all the children of the nation equally.

“Today the Proclamation continues to enthuse Irish people.

“It charts a course to a new future, to a New Ireland, a Shared Ireland.”