Queen visits Catholic church in Northern Ireland

The Queen’s trip to Enniskillen in Fermanagh has seen her make a groundbreaking first visit to a Catholic church in either Northern Ireland or the Republic. She made the short walk across the street from the Anglican Cathedral’s deanery, where she privately met seven survivors of the Enniskillen bombing, to St Michael’s, filled with local community groups that had gathered to meet her. The Queen is making her 20th visit to Northern Ireland since first arriving on its shores in 1953, but has never entered a Roman Catholic place of worship, Buckingham Palace confirmed.

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