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From left, Paul Bratton, Amanda-Jane McCallion, Head Girl, Andrea McCausland and Alan Wright, Head Boy, at the Faughan Valley High School annual formal.
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NOSTALGIA: Derry and Inishowen in pictures - December 1996
By Kevin Mullan
Published 5th Jan 2022, 12:02 BST
Updated 5th Jan 2022, 12:04 BST
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.