A candlelight vigil for the victims of the weekend’s shootings in Orlando will take place in the city this week.
The event is being hosted by Amach! LGBT.
Fifty people have died and around the same number are injured in America’s deadliest mass shooting.
Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack at a gay nightclub in the early hours of yesterday morning.
The suspect, named as 29-year-old Omar Mateen, is among the dead.
The Galway vigil gets underway at Eyre Square at 6.30pm on Wednesday evening.
President Obama says the attacks were on ordinary Americans, who were just having a good time.
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