NOSTALGIA: Derry and Inishowen in pictures - February 1997
By Kevin Mullan
Published 11th Feb 2022, 12:16 BST
Updated 11th Feb 2022, 12:18 BST
In February 1997 Ciara McGurk, aged 18, became the North-West’s youngest female pilot to earn a solo flying licence; the case taken by relatives of the Bloody Sunday dead in an attempt to get the findings of the Widgery Tribunal overturned was heard in the Belfast High Court; and a group of Inishowen men came up with a novel fundraising charity idea - a project to grow and reap a field of corn without using modern farm machinery. As ever the ‘Journal’ photographers were out and about.
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Seated from left, are Rachael Spratt, Lisa McNeill, Charmaine McNally, Dervla Young, Rebecca McCafferty and Ella Crumlish. Standing, from left, are, Owen Fleming, David Fairburn, Thomas Lee, Darragh Rutheford, Barry Johnston and John O’Connell, attended the 1997 Oakgrove Social.
Donemana Primary School pupil Natasha Durham taking advantage of the new school library that was opened by Joe Martin, the Chief Executive of the Western Education and Library Board, in February 1997.