World champion super-middleweight boxer Steve Collins, during a visit to the Lake of Shadows, with from left, Mickey Doherty, Jason Fair and, from right, Joe Donaghey and Mickey Donaghey.World champion super-middleweight boxer Steve Collins, during a visit to the Lake of Shadows, with from left, Mickey Doherty, Jason Fair and, from right, Joe Donaghey and Mickey Donaghey.
World champion super-middleweight boxer Steve Collins, during a visit to the Lake of Shadows, with from left, Mickey Doherty, Jason Fair and, from right, Joe Donaghey and Mickey Donaghey.

OF TIMES GONE BY: May 1996

In May 1996 the Mayor, John Kerr, said he would support moves to have bodies found at the Waterside workhouse returned to Sligo for reburial; Oatfield got the licence to produce Star Trek - the Next Generation Sherbet Fruit Drops; and Derry school children sent their sympathy to the grieving community in Dunblane. The Journal photographers - as ever - were out and about in Derry and Donegal.
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