Young people from Caw Youth Club with a wall mural they painted at an art workshop at Columba House. Included, from left, Catriona Nic Mhuiris, Columba House, Joanne Walker, Youth Leader Y.C. and Michelle Walsh,Project Worker.placeholder image
Young people from Caw Youth Club with a wall mural they painted at an art workshop at Columba House. Included, from left, Catriona Nic Mhuiris, Columba House, Joanne Walker, Youth Leader Y.C. and Michelle Walsh,Project Worker.

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

By Kevin Mullan
Published 19th Nov 2021, 15:55 BST

In November 1996 Derry hosted the annual Irish Star Trek convention (Norcon 96) with 1,000 Trekkies ‘beaming down’ on the banks of the Foyle; SDLP leader John Hume branded the people behind a thwarted car bomb attack on the RUC’s Derry headquarters ‘the enemies of Ireland’; and Fianna Fáil MEP Pat the Cope Gallagher urged the Minister for the Marine Sean Barrett to block any measures proposed by the European Fisheries Commissioner Emma Bonino to reduce the Irish fleet by 40%, suggesting it could have disastrous consequences for fishermen in Donegal. As ever the ‘Journal’ photographers were out on the beat.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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James, Anne and Christopher McLaughlin, from Lowerbraghey, Malin, who appeared on Winning Streak in November 1996.

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James, Anne and Christopher McLaughlin, from Lowerbraghey, Malin, who appeared on Winning Streak in November 1996.

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