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Salmon fishermen picket the Foyle Fisheries Commission office in Derry in August 1996.
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OF TIMES GONE BY: Derry and Inishowen in pictures - August 1996
By Kevin Mullan
Published 9th Aug 2021, 12:23 GMT
Updated 9th Aug 2021, 12:38 GMT
In August 1996 Michael McLaughlin and Liam Downey discovered a message in a bottle at the Isle of Doagh in Inishowen that had been posted by Argentinian sailor Francisco S. Sanchez in a Coca Cola bottle a year previously in the Caribbean Sea; Seamus Deane published his first novel ‘Reading in the Dark’ about growing up in Derry in the 1940s and 1950s; and celebrity Chris Evans was among the guests at the wedding of Ailsa Orr and Andrew David Mitchell in Rathmullan. As ever the ‘Journal’ photographers were out and about.