OF TIMES GONE BY: Derry and Inishowen in pictures - November 1996
In November 1996 it was revealed Neil Jordan’s ‘Michael Collins’, the big movie of the moment, had a special connection with Buncrana, as Deirdre Deeney, from Castle Avenue, was a cousin, albeit once or twice removed, of the ‘Big Fella’; Derry City Council increased security at the City Cemetery after a baby girl’s grave was desecrated by vandals; and the most recent figures obtainable from the National Cancer Registry showed that 1,047 persons with addresses in Donegal were diagnosed as having cancer in 1994. As ever the ‘Journal’s’ photographers were out and about.
By Kevin Mullan
Published 30th Nov 2021, 11:09 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.