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Some unionists felt they should have gone to Coleraine - reopening the university which dates back to the 1960s.
In 1965, the Lockwood report recommended Northern Ireland s second university be located in Coleraine rather than Derry. In a speech in Parliament, SDLP MP Gerry Fitt remarked: The only consideration which activated the minds of the unionist powers . was that two-thirds of the population of Londonderry were Catholics. They sited the university in the heart of Coleraine . [a] unionist-dominated area.
As the years passed, the feeling of neglect has grown. So is it fair?