The monument shows a clock that has been stopped at 1.06, the same moment when the explosion on the Shankill Road happened on that day in 1993. Bobby Baird and Gina Murray dedicated the monument.

The West Kirk Presbyterian church on Shankill Road, just a few yards from the site of the explosion, hosted a memorial ceremony. Among those present was Jeffrey Donaldson, the leader of the DUP. Rev. David Clawson, a minister from West Kirk Presbyterian, conducted the service.

Thirty years ago, “mayhem visited on this community,” Rev. Clawson told the gathering.

A minute of silence was observed as a bell tolled nine times, one for each victim, just before 1:06 pm.

To commemorate the occasion, nine trees were planted as a living monument in the park next to the church.

“We too are thinking of the families and community of all those murdered 30 years ago today in the Shankill Road bombing,” stated President Michael D. Higgins, “as their families and relatives will be recalling the loved ones cruelly taken from them.”

“Their courage, resilience, and grief remind us that while peace is difficult to achieve, and so difficult to maintain, it can be achieved even from the most harrowing of circumstances.”

He remarked that the reason he went there was to honour the people who died thirty years ago.

According to Mr. Harbinson, the tragedy had an impact on first responders, families, and the community.

“Hopefully we'll never see the likes of it again,” he added.

The blast claimed the life of Alan McBride's wife, Sharon.

He expressed that he was glad to see some of the Ballymurphy family at the funeral ceremony and that today was a day of conflicting feelings.

Mr. McBride said: “His message hasn't changed in the previous 30 years.

"I desire harmony and serenity. “I want society to advance and provide a better future for our children and their children,” he declared.

He urged the politicians of Northern Ireland to return to Stormont.

“The fact they're not around the table, actually making legislation and actually working out how we are actually govern this place and how we're going to take this place forward for everybody that lives here, Catholic, Protestant, nationalist, unionist, loyalist, republican; that's a great sadness”, said the governor.