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Taoiseach Enda Kenny unveils the memorial monument at Mayo Titanic Memorial park with committee members

Taoiseach Enda Kenny today officially opened the Mayo Titanic memorial park.

Opening the park, the Taoiseach said:

This memorial park is a testament to the human spirit. It tells the story, unique to Western Europe, of the devastating impact the sinking of the Titanic had on a small isolated rural community.

This Memorial Park may be the story of the unknown – but it is not the story of the forgotten.

This is evidenced by the ringing of the bell, at 2.20 am in the morning in St Patricks Church, every 15th April, by descendents of those who died, to commemorate the sinking of the Titanic and those from this parish who died on that tragic day.

You – the people of Lahardane, of Mayo and the descendents of the dead, remember.