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A candle-lit ceremony by the president in memory of Chernobyl.
Searmanas lasta coinnle ag an uachtarán i gcuimhne Chernobyl.
President Michael D.Higgins and his wife Sabina have held a candle lighting ceremony to commemorate the Chernobyl disaster.
Tá searmanas lasta coinnle reachtáilte ag an Uachtarán Michael D.Higgins agus a bhean chéile Sabina le tubaiste Chernobyl a chomóradh.
35 years today the great nuclear accident happened.
35 bliain sa lá inniu a tharla an timpiste mór núicléach.
Its nuclear material leaked from the reactor at Chernobyl in Belarus, a region then controlled by the former Soviet regime at the time.
B’amhlaidh a sceith ábhar núicléach ón imoibreoir ag Chernobyl sa Bhealarúis, réigiún a bhí faoi cheannas an tsean réamas Sóivéidigh ag an am.
It is considered one of the worst nuclear accidents ever.
Áirítear é ar cheann de na timpistí núicléach ba mheasa a bhí riamh ann.
Candlelight ceremony in Belarus, close enough to Chernobyl President Higgins said today that the Chernobyl incident cast a dark shadow on human history.
Searmanas lasta coinnle sa Bhealarúis, gar go leor do Chernobyl Dúirt an tUachtarán Higgins inniu go raibh scáil dhorcha caite ag eachtra Chernobyl ar stair an duine.
However, he praised what the Irish people have done for the people of Chernobyl and Belarus since then.
Mhol sé áfach a bhfuil déanta ag pobal na hÉireann do mhuintir Chernobyl agus na Bealarúíse ó shin.
4 years ago, President Higgins was the first head of state to acknowledge the United Nations’ demand for a memorial day for the Chernobyl incident.
4 bliana ó shin, bhí an tUachtarán Higgins ar an gcéad cheannaire stáit a thug aitheantas d’éileamh na Náisiún Aontaithe go dtionólfá lá cuimhneacháin d’eachtra Chernobyl.
This commemorative ceremony is being organized by Chernobyl Children International.
Is í an eagraíocht Páistí Idirnáisiúnta Chernobyl (Chernobyl Children International) atá ag eagrú an tsearmanais chuimhneacháin seo.