A LISNASKEA-based victims' group held a poignant service of prayer and reflection acknowledging the victims and survivors of terrorism on Wednesday morning – the same day that former Deputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness, was laid to rest.

The South East Fermanagh Foundation (SEFF) arranged for the special service to take place at the group's memorial, located within the grounds of Holy Trinity Church of Ireland in Lisnaskea.

A number of local clergymen, Rev Alan Irwin, Rev Rodney Beacom and Rev William Newell, were involved in facilitating the service.

Also giving a Bible reading at the memorial was SEFF member, Pam Morrison, whose three brothers were murdered by the IRA in separate incidents over the 1981-1985 period.

Ronnie, Cecil and Jimmy Graham were all part-time members of the UDR who were off-duty when they were killed.

SEFF director of services, Kenny Donaldson, said the group felt it had been important to provide a space for the innocent victims and survivors of terrorism to come together and to have focus placed upon them when so much other focus was “directed elsewhere”.

Mr. Donaldson, who is also a spokesman for Innocent Victims United (IVU), acknowledged that the death of Martin McGuinness this week had brought a “wide spectrum of response”.

He said: “On a human level, IVU takes no glee on the death of anyone irrespective of what they may or may not have done within their life on this earth. We acknowledge that Martin McGuinness will be grieved by his own family and others.

“However, it must be said that in the days since Martin McGuinness's death many innocent victims and survivors of IRA terrorism have been expressing feelings of being further cheated – cheated of the prospect of obtaining some form of accountability through information Mr. McGuinness could have chosen to provide to them but instead has taken to the grave with him.”