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Bloody Sunday Memorial Row: “This is nothing to do with politics whatsoever…”

Pete Baker on January 31, 2015, 8:02 pm

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A row has broken out in Londonderry over the design of a new Bloody Sunday memorial window in the Guildhall. The window was commissioned, at a maximum cost of £17,000, in May 2014 to replace the previous memorial window, which was installed in 1986, following complaints from some of the families of the Bloody Sunday victims. A spokesperson for Derry City Council said they had listened carefully to the views of the Bloody Sunday families. “To this end Derry City Council …

“The restoration of this beautiful building, due to be completed in….”

Pete Baker on December 3, 2011, 4:14 pm

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Another example of the kind of openness, transparency, and forward-planning that makes Derry City Council the local government it is… They’re moving to facilitate restoration work. And the BBC reports that the £3million Guildhall Restoration Project, on which work began in August 2010, is not expected to allow the 19th Century Guildhall to re-open until Spring 2013 – well into Londonderry’s year-long reign as the first UK City of Culture. From the BBC report The Mayor of Derry, Alderman Maurice Devenney, …