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A vigil was held in Newry at 4pm yesterday, 30 January 2022, fifty years to the hour since Bloody Sunday in Derry where 13 civilians were shot dead by the Parachute Regiment at a Civil Rights March.
Despite the dreadful weather a sizeable crowd turned out at the Monaghan Street Roundabout in silent memory of those who died and those who were injured.
Commenting on the event MLA Liz Kimmins who attended said "Today the people of Newry City stood with Bloody Sunday families on the 50th anniversary of this atrocity on the streets of Derry at the hands of British state forces.
"The strength and courage of the Bloody Sunday families is an inspiration for all those struggling for truth and justice in Ireland and across the world. We will always stand with them."
Kimmins added "We remember: Jackie Duddy, aged 17; Fian Gerard Donaghey, aged 17; Gerald McKinney, aged 35; William McKinney, aged 27; Jim Wray, aged 22; William Nash, aged 19; Michael McDaid, aged 20; Michael Kelly, aged 17; John Young, aged 17; Kevin McElhinney, aged 17; Hugh Gilmour, aged 17; Barney McGuigan, aged 41; Patrick Doherty, aged 32 and John Johnston, aged 59"
A week later 6 February 1972 a Newry Civil Rights March saw somewhere between 50,000 and 100,000 people descend on the town to express their anger at what had happened. Gaeláras Mhic Ardghail are hosting a remembrance event this Sunday 6 February to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Newry March. See DERRY-TO-DERRYBEG for more.
