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Pupils from Scoil Mhuire pictured before leaving on a seven day ski-ing holiday to the Italian Alps.
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NOSTALGIA: Derry and Inishowen in pictures - March 1981
By Kevin Mullan
Published 29th Mar 2022, 11:13 BST
In March 1981 there was good industrial news for Derry when it was announced that DuPont was to build a plant for the manufacture of Hypalon synthetic rubber at its Maydown works; Buncrana Urban District Council decided at its monthly meeting not to advertise the town’s shore green for letting during the year; and loyalist demonstrators on St. Patrick’s Day broke more than 40 bottles onto the pitch at Lisnagelvin playing fields in the Waterside area of Derry - the site of a proposed controversial temporary Gaelic pitch. As ever, the ‘Journal’s’ photographers were on the beat.