Hundreds of republicans will gather in Derry today to remember IRA members from the city who died during the “Troubles.”
The annual Volunteers Sunday march, accompanied by eight bands, will leave Central Drive in Creggan at 12 noon to make its way to the republican plot in the City Cemetery where the main speaker will be Irish Sinn Fein Senator Padraig Mac Lochlainn (pictured), a former Donegal TD.
Up to 2,000 people are expected to take part.
The event has been brought forward to the earlier time as it had been scheduled to take place at 2.00pm, the kick-off time for Ireland’s clash with France in the last 16 of the European Championship Finals.
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