The exhibition toured through cathedrals in Britain and opened for public viewings at St Macartin’s Cathedral on Monday, where it will be available to visit until February 8.
It has been created by hundreds of volunteers worldwide, and alongside its Fermanagh showing, a book will be on sale giving more information on each of the 80 scenes including a picture from 1944 to show viewers what each scene was based on.
The not so sweet haunting of the NI ‘yellow man’
In a bizarre series of social media videos last week, locals around Co Derry expressed concern that ‘Northern Ireland is being haunted by the yellow man’ — and no, they’re not talking about honeycomb.
It comes after a man dressed in all yellow, and wearing a wig, was videoed walking on the Vow Road of the Kilrea region, at around 12.30am on Friday, December 27.
There have also been sightings reported in the Rasharkin and Dunloy areas.
One man even rang the police, who said: “We take all reports very seriously and I hope that the visibility of our officers today, alongside our commitment to continue to patrol shared public spaces, provides reassurance and boosts confidence that we are committed to doing everything we can to make areas safe.”
There is no indication any crime has been committed, or that the man in question was carrying a weapon, but the whole ordeal has made for some jokey conspiracy theories on TikTok.
Dashed dreams of cherry tomato visits
They say all good things must come to an end, and unfortunately for those that haven’t yet got to visit Dublin’s viral cherry tomato bridge, they might never get to do so, as the ripe red veggies had disappeared from the Drumcondra site on Tuesday.
When RTE News visited the bridge, the tomatoes were no longer on the bridge wall. Instead, they were strewn on the railway tracks below, much to the disappointment of visitors hoping to ‘ketchup’ on all the excitement.
It’s possibly the weirdest story to come out of the entirety of Ireland this year so far, but the tomato-based shrine is one that captivated the country, with people travelling from across the island, north and south, to get a glimpse of the saucy spot.