Ireland President Michael D Higgins

The heads of state shared a warm handshake at the close of a service of reflection for the late Queen in Belfast.

Michael D Higgins laid a wreath at Stone Breakers' Yard in Kilmainham Gaol, the site of the execution of 15 rebel leaders in 1916.

Ireland's president Michael D Higgins said Ireland has 'journeyed many miles from the shell shocked and burning Dublin of 1916'.