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LAST UPDATE | 27 Jan 2022
MICHAEL D HIGGINS, Taoiseach Micheal Martin and former UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn will feature in a programme of events to mark the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday.
A series of events will take place over the weekend in Derry to mark the anniversary of the date when 13 civil rights protesters were shot dead by British soldiers on January 30 1972, in the city.
Another man shot by paratroopers on the day died four months later.
While many consider him the 14th victim of Bloody Sunday, his death was formally attributed to an inoperable brain tumour.
President Higgins will deliver a recorded message to the Bloody Sunday families on Sunday.
The president’s message will be shown publicly during the commemorative event Beyond the Silence, which will take place before a limited audience in Guildhall Square.
His message will be broadcast on a large screen and the occasion will be livestreamed to an online audience.
The event will be hosted by actor Adrian Dunbar and will feature tributes to the victims, as well as music and public performances.
Guildhall Square will fall then silent on Sunday at the precise time when 50 years earlier paratroopers opened fire on civil rights marchers in the Bogside.
Earlier on Sunday, relatives of those who were shot and injured will take part in a walk of remembrance which will set out from Creggan Shops and make its way to the Bloody Sunday Monument in Rossville Street for the annual memorial service and wreath-laying ceremony at 11am.
Micheál Martin will lay a wreath and is also expected to meet privately with the families of those killed.
Bloody Sunday Trust chairperson Tony Doherty said: “This Sunday is January 30.
“It will be exactly 50 years to the day and the date since Bloody Sunday.
“The families will be gathering at the Creggan shops at 9:15am and we are going to walk to the Bloody Sunday monument for 11am.
“We would like all the people of the city and beyond to join us, regardless of your political persuasion, regardless of your beliefs, religious, political or otherwise and stand in solidarity with us on Sunday morning.”
The 2022 Bloody Sunday Memorial Lecture will be delivered at Derry’s Guildhall on Saturday by Mr Corbyn, a long time supporter of the Bloody Sunday families.
The MP for Islington North in London will give his lecture at the same location where most of the hearings in the Bloody Sunday Inquiry took place.
The inquiry, chaired by Lord Saville, replaced the verdict of the Widgery Tribunal which had largely cleared the soldiers and British authorities of blame.
Lord Saville’s inquiry found that none of the casualties were posing a threat or doing anything that would justify their shooting.
It said no warning was given to any civilians before the soldiers opened fire and that none of the soldiers fired in response to attacks by petrol bombers or stone throwers.
Saville found there was “some firing by republican paramilitaries” but that on balance the Army fired first.
Former prime minister David Cameron told the House of Commons in 2010 that the killings were “unjustified and unjustifiable”.
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My wife bought me a ticket as a Crimbo present I won €500 yay!! She has just spent it in Ikea!!! now I’ve to put all these flat packs together!!
Clever woman!
Congrats! And jealous of your wife’s lkea shopping spree :) happy flat packing!
Ah I’m happy for them…..but am so jealous!
I know I will get a lot of red thumbs for this. The only reason people go public after winning the lotto is to gloat to the rest of the country. I have more respect for people who dont go public
No I think you get less money if you stay anonymous.
I dont think its true graham. You dont have to go public. I know I wont even if they offer an extra, lets say 10k, to the 1M won.
How’s that?
Sorry you get an extra €20,000 for going public. Stand there for a few photographs for an extra 20k. I’d do it.
No way would I go public if I won it. I don’t want the papers harrassing me or my family
But what about the begging letters? I’d keep sending them if I won.
Jaysis that jokes so old it doesn’t have ancestors
Complete myth you get more for going public. National lottery confirmed it, pretty sure the journal had an article about it a few months ago
You get exactly the same money. Only difference is if go public you get the champagne day with the handing over of the cheque and photos shoot etc
I’d be fairly raging if I was the aunt….. Hope the throw her a few quid.
Why are media outlets so obsessed with the fact “the winner has yet to come forward”? The same in that rag, the independent. The draw was less than 48 hours ago! Give them a chance. And congrats to the winner and to this couple. Great start to their life together!
No i didn’t win but it’s my near year’s resolution to do just that.
“This will definitely help with the wedding” …. wedding of the decade there id say if that will just “help” :-) And as for the €1mill I suppose I should have bought a ticket! maybe Next time!!
how many tickets went into the drum on the night of the draw looked nothing like 300000 tickets we all sat looking and waiting and over 90% didn,t make it into the drum {ripped again}
Dave i think i read somewhere that only a certain amount of them go into the draw for the million…..they are all supposedly put in for the other draws. Same as winning streak only 100 tickets go into drum for the following weeks programme. I could be wrong
Money can’t buy happiness !!! Congrats to the winners !!
True, money can’t buy happiness, but it makes the search for it much more comfortable.
True that money can’t buy happiness But I’d rather cry in a bentley continental that on the 54A Bus.
If I did I will be shovelling the cocaine into my gaf!
No.
Id love to be at that wedding if it only going to help. I’d go collect me million if it would only stop raining.
Quite like the blonde in the green dress in the lotto crimbo
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