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On names and being sensitive

Picture by Plastic Jesus The fowl over in the sluggerotoole coop are doing some fluttering about the proposed name-change for the city by the Foyle. The plan is, apparently,  to change it from Londonderry to Derry. That disappoints me. I’d rather have had Doire but I’ll settle for Derry. The objections to this move are […]

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Condemnation and after

Picture by Crausby   There was an interesting article in The Strabane Chronicle last week. It centred on a remark made on Facebook by the Mayor of Derry and Strabane, Eilisha McCallion. She was responding to attacks last week in which one councillor had his car set alight and another hand his windscreen smashed. The […]

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