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James ‘Jimbo’ Crossan was remembered as a man of great vision with the ability to bring people together at his Requiem Mass in St Columba’s Long Tower Church on Friday.
Derry City's rise from the ashes recalled in new documentary Fan, Deirdre Dunne has followed Derry City since she was a girl. Picture by Stephen Latimer Seamus McKinney 19 April, 2021 01:00 The "gang of four", from left, Tony Doherty, Terry Harkin, Eamonn McLaughlin and Eddie Mahon, brought senior football back to Derry. Picture by Stephen Latimer The day Martin McGuinness dismantled an IRA bomb so the biggest game in the history of Derry City FC could go ahead is recalled in a new documentary charting the club's Phoenix-like rise from the Troubl...
TV Editor Tonight's top TV tips include a profile of writer Colm Tóibín, Kate Winslet stars in new drama Mare of Easttown, there's a documentary about Derry City, and Mark Kermode takes a look at the Oscars . . . Pick of the Day Colm Tóibín - On Memory’s Shore, 9.35pm, RTÉ One Here's a profile of the author Colm Tóibín in which he reflects on his childhood in county Wexford and reveals his path to becoming a writer after his time at UCD and time spent abroad in Barcelona. He also discusses his latest novel
Ackley Bridge with Kayla (Robyn Cara) and Fizza (Yasmin Al Khudhairi) returns for a new series with plenty of new faces Ackley Bridge (C4, 6pm) THE Yorkshire-set school-based drama is back for a new run, but some things have changed. For a start it’s broadcasting each weekday for the next fortnight, and in a tea-time rather then primetime slot. We’re promised several fresh faces too, who we’ll be getting to know over the course of ten episodes. Among them is mixed race pupil Kayla, who finds herself torn between her white mother’s family and her father’s traditional Pakistani rela...
BBC One Different League: The Derry City Story The story of a community that needed a break and how its football club, exiled for 13 years, was brought back from the dead. Show more The Brandywell was one of the poorest areas in Europe and home to Derry City Football Club. In the shadow of the civil rights movement and the Troubles, the club managed to keep playing - until the team bus of Ballymena United was caught up in the violence, taken away and burned. Derry City FC was banned from playing at home and eventually went out of business.