Group pictured at the start of the annual breakfast run for the Foyle Hospice which took place in July 1996. Included is Noel McMonagle, organiser.placeholder image
Group pictured at the start of the annual breakfast run for the Foyle Hospice which took place in July 1996. Included is Noel McMonagle, organiser.

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

In July 1996 Dr. Patrick Johnston was appointed the Ulster Cancer Foundation’s Professor of Oncology at Queen’s; a huger entry was recorded for the annual Malin Raft Race; and eighteen years old Fiona Gallagher, a pupil of the Phoenix School of Dancing in Derry, signed a contract with Riverdance The Show. As ever, the ‘Journal’ photographers were out and about.

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