Lord Mayor of Belfast laments Covid-19 crowd restrictions at VJ Day memorial
Lord Mayor of Belfast laments Covid-19 crowd restrictions at VJ Day memorial

A silence was held at Belfast City Hall during a socially distanced memorialevent at the Cenotaph.

Lord Mayor Frank McCoubrey laid a wreath after the LastPost was played by a bugler.

Afterwards, Mr McCoubrey said it was frustratingthat health restrictions had prevented the occasion being marked with a majorevent, but said it was important to avoid mass gatherings.

“We’re in difficulttimes at the moment and there wasn’t very many people here but I think it wasvery, very important that we came out and remembered those who sacrificedtheir lives to give us our freedom,” he said.