After the very moving service at the Cenotaph, a service of community remembrance and reflection then took place in St. Macartin's Cathedral, with family members leaving roses at the top of the church in a moving display of "pride, loving affection and gratitude".

Bishop of Clogher John McDowell said Enniskillen bomb victims and bereaved experienced "just how limitless the wickedness and bitterness of the world can be" all those years ago.

"Today is a day when we remember those who were themselves remembering when they were murdered, and we try to do so with the same simplicity, gratitude and dignity as they showed when they gathered that day at the War Memorial.�� �"In my experience those who have been subjected to the horrors of violence, whether injured or bereaved, do not ask that their experience is constantly remembered by everyone else in every waking hour. But they do ask that they and their loved ones should not be forgotten."

He told the 500-strong congregation: "To this day you bear the marks of bereavement or of acute physical suffering as constant reminders. Remembrance is your daily, even hourly companion."

Readings from the New Testament were read by Julian Armstrong whose parents Wesley and Bertha Armstrong were killed, and Sharon Gault; whose husband Stephen lost his father, Samuel.

Prayers were read by Kathryn Stone, Northern Ireland Commissioner for Victims and Survivors, Andrew McKibbin, former Consultant Surgeon at the Erne Hospital, Francis Allett, former member of Northern Ireland Ambulance Service and Fermanagh Police Inspector Roy Robinson.

After the service, the families of the bereaved were brought into a private room in the church where a message from The Queen, who visited Enniskillen earlier this year and met victims, was relayed to them. In it she said her thoughts were with the victims, the bereaved and "all those who bear the scars of that dreadful act".