Brian McGuigan (far right) and some of the staff and members of Reach Across at a reception in the Nucleus prior to their first anniversary in August 1996.

OF TIMES GONE BY: Derry and Inishowen in pictures - August 1996

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.

By Kevin Mullan

Published 9th Aug 2021, 12:23 BST

Updated 9th Aug 2021, 12:38 BST