OF TIMES GONE BY: Derry and Inishowen in pictures - November 1996
In November 1996 Ring Amateur Boxing club’s exciting junior flyweight, Charles Nash, was narrowly beaten in his first contest in the Cuban capital, Havana; Buncrana Council chairman, Colr. Nicholas Crossan, threatened to take legal action in an attempt to overturn a controversial decision to decentralise Donegal County Council services for Inishowen to Carndonagh instead of Buncrana; and twenty-year-old Derry actress Nora Mullen was hoping that a BBC radio series on the Molly McGuires would be her big break into the world of drama. The Derry Journal’s photographers were out on the beat.
By Kevin Mullan
Published 16th Nov 2021, 11:03 BST
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Committee members of the Carndonagh Pioneer Association with young people who received Junior Pins at a Mass in the Church of the Sacred Heart. Front, from left, are John Paul McDaid, Margaret Rose Porter, Mary Theresa Callaghan, Sarine Cantwell, Louise Cantwell, Denis Harkin and Fr. Colin Morris. Standing, at back, are Lorraine McLaughlin, Sarah Doherty, Andrea Porter, Denis Harkin, Full Pioneer, Owen Harkin, Pat Porter, Conal Taiff, Charlie Hegarty and Hugh McGeoghan.
Danielle and Erin Kearney, Oakfield Road, pictured after their caged birds won Junior Foreign and Paradise Whydah at the City of Derry Caged Bird Society’s annual show in St. Columb’s Park.
Triple Olympic gold medal winner Michelle Smith signs her book ‘Gold - A Triple Champion’s Story’ for swimming enthusiast Sean O’Boyle from Donegal when she visited Eason’s in Foyleside Shopping Centre.