Terry mayor, chief spread cheer during Operation Santa Patrol
The city of Terry is getting into the holidays. They’re spreading Christmas cheer in an unconventional way, but in good fun.
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The city of Terry is getting into the holidays. They’re spreading Christmas cheer in an unconventional way, but in good fun.
Comments In September 1884, a royal navy gunboat, on route to carry out an eviction sunk off the coast of Tory Island in Donegal. Smashed on rocks, she sank in just 15 minutes and 52 men perished. The official cause of the sinking was due to negligence, but rumour and folklore persist that sabotage or even a curse could be responsible for the sinking of HMS Wasp. Ireland in 1884 was a nation in turmoil, the scars of the Great Famine were still raw, two years previously the two most senior politicians in Ireland had been assassinated by the Invincibleâs in the Phoenix Park and th...
The family of the late John Hume will donate his three peace prizes - the Nobel Peace Prize, the Mahatma Gandhi Peace Prize, and the Martin Luther King Jnr. Nonviolent Peace Prize - to the people of Derry. The Derry native is the only person to have won all three awards.