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.

placeholder image — 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

By Kevin Mullan

Published 28th May 2021, 18:05 BST

Updated 28th May 2021, 18:29 BST

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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Bernadette Haughey, trainee compositor, with pupils from St. Cecilia’s Secondary School when they visited the Derry Journal offices. Included is Sharon Bergin, teacher.

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Patrons at the official opening of the refurbished Abercorn Bar lounge in May 1996.

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