NOSTALGIA: Derry and Inishowen in pictures

In December 1996 calls to The Samaritans in Derry were expected to double over Christmas, its director said; a Carndonagh man narrowly escaped death when his fishing vessel broke up off the Wexford coast, forcing him and his colleagues to seek shelter in a life raft; and pupils at a Derry grammar school at the centre of a meningitis scare run little risk of contracting the disease, a medical expert said. As ever the ‘Journal’s’ photographers were out and about.

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From left, seated, Jacky Johnston, Amanda Ferguson, Michelle Brace, Emma Simpson, Karen Knobbs and Gemma Keighley. Standing, Jonathan Heywood, Billy Heywood, Glen Montgomery, Darren Mitchel, Leslie Curry and Ally Dunn, at the Faughan Valley High School formal at the Inn at the Cross.

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Pictured clockwise, Ellen Curran, Brigid McCallion, Kathleen Bradley, Betty McLaughlin, Annie Burke, Rheline McConnell and Marjorie Scarlett at the Dove House Senior Citizens’ Christmas party in the Delacroix.