LGBT vigil to take place to mark Orlando tragedy



A vigil is due to take place in Sligo later this evening to mark the Orlando shooting tragedy in which 49 people were killed in a gay nightclub.

The vigil will be held outside the Town Hall in Sligo at 6 o’clock.

Nigel Gallagher is one of the organisers of the vigil:

 

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Hayley Foxe-Roberts of the LGBT community in the north west says that this was a hate crime.

She says the situation in Orlando is an attack on LGBT communities right across the world:



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