Retro

Hey! You with the checked jeans and white moon boots! Turn off that boom box, sit back, relax with your can of Panda Cola, packet of Treets and Marathon in hand as we take you back to your youth with some of the theme tunes of the decades biggest kids programmes of the late 1970s and 80s.

Next Friday, January 31 at 7.00pm Dr. Brian Lacey will deliver a talk entitled ‘The Sea, and the archaeology and early history of Donegal’ at the Inishowen Maritime Museum in Greencastle.

Sinn Féin’s Martina Anderson in her role as Honourary President of Seán Dolan’s GAC, met this week with Minister for Communities Deirdre Hargey to lobby her support for major development plans at the club.

Derry City and Strabane District Council will celebrate local women next week by participating in the Herstory 20/20 Project.

As a child and as a teenager in the 50s and 60s I travelled with my family on the (Lairds Loch ) boat from Glasgow to Derry and then on to grandmother’s place in Donegal.

Derry’s new transport hub in the Waterside is garnering a reputation as one of the city’s newest and most innovative event spaces.

Local businesses involved in the food and drink industry are being invited to apply to become accredited under a new brand geared towards strengthening and building the local food tourism offering.

In about 795 AD the monastery at Derry (Doire) of Saint Columa fame had heard word that large fleets of Vikings were approaching Ireland to plunder the gold and silver articles of the Gaelic or Celtic Church, to take them back to Scandanavia in their longships along with slaves captured in the Lough Foyle region, which made up the Kingdom of Aileach - with its capital in County Donegal.

Derry Sinn Féin Councillor Sandra Duffy has said she is confident work to ensure construction can start on a multi-million pound retirement village complex in Derry is nearing completion.

The James Connolly House Museum in Derry has been attracting visitors from across the world curious about the unique collection of historic artefacts on display at the city centre facility.

The campaign to protect our environment has taken on a new level of urgency as the effects of environmental damage are felt across the world, and global leaders mobilise to mitigate the repercussions for future generations.

AFTER A last minute spate of shopping that brought 1948 Christmas trading well up to the volume of the previous few years, Christmas Day in Derry City slipped past with the quietest tread for several years.

Translink has confirmed that the Victorian weather vane which sat atop the Old Waterside Train station will be replaced, following concerns raised by local residents.

Derry people this week shared their memories of the time almost 50 years ago when Dana put the city on the international map by winning the Eurovision Song Contest.

One of the largest hauls of ancient gold artefacts ever discovered in Ireland has gone on display in Letterkenny.

Being a Derry Girl is a state of mind and now fans of the television show can say it loud and proud with the ultimate statement T-shirt from Ireland’s leading sportswear manufacturer.

Derry’s Eurovision winner Dana said there is nowhere else she would rather be as she returned to the city yesterday to celebrate 50 years since she won the international song contest.