OF TIMES GONE BY: Derry and Inishowen in November 1989

In November 1989 Rev. Ignatius McQuillan, principal of St. Columb’s College, expressed fears for the future of Catholic education in NI - particularly in Derry itself; octogenarians William J. (Liam) Conaghan, ‘Derry Journal,’ Letterkenny staff representative and Cecil A. King, ‘Donegal Democrat,’ celebrated 64 years in the trade as the oldest working journalists in Ireland; a young Derry woman has claimed that she was frightened to drive through the border checkpoints because of the treatment she receives from the British Army and RUC; Mr. John McLaughlin, who lives just outside the village of Gleneely, in Donegal aqcuired the reputation of being the champion vegetable grower in Britain or Ireland, and his latest specimen - a huge cabbage - was testimony to unrivalled skill as a gardener; and two officers with Derry City Council returned from helping to monitor the first ever free and fair elections in the little known African country of Namibia - the largest operation ever mounted by the United Nations Organisation - and they described it as a chastening experience.

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Rev. Joseph Carolan, P.P., Buncrana, congratulating Fr. Jimmy Doherty after he completed his ‘Swim Against M.S.’ in the Buncrana Leisure Centre pool.

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Colr. Gregory Campbell speaking at an anti-Anglo-Irish Agreement protest organised by the Orange Order at the Diamond.

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A group of young cyclists at the Springtown Training Centre during a stopover on their maracycle around the Six Counties. They were welcomed at the centre by Radio Foyle’s Gerry Anderson.

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Mr. Willie Meehan, chairman of the Long Tower Old Boys’ Committee, presents a cheque of £1,000, the proceeds of a cabaret dance evening in the Delacroix lounge, to Rev. Eamon Graham, Derry Diocese representative of Trócaire. The cheque was presented at the committee’s weekly snooker session.

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