Mark Daly — 2022-01-26

Minute's Silence to Commemorate 50th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday

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Before I call on the Deputy Leader to respond to the Order of Business, yesterday it was suggested, and we discussed it at the Committee on Parliamentary Privileges and Oversight, that we would have a minute's silence in remembrance of Bloody Sunday. On Sunday, 30 January 1972, in Derry a peace march for civil rights ended with innocent people being killed by members of the British Army, which is forever since known as Bloody Sunday.

Fifty years on it is fitting and appropriate that we remember those lives that were cut short. We think, too, of their families, friends and communities who suffered an unimaginable loss.

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On Sunday, 30 January 1972, in Derry a peace march for civil rights ended with innocent people being killed by members of the British Army, which is forever since known as Bloody Sunday. Fifty years on it is fitting and appropriate that we remember those lives that were cut short. We think, too, of their families, friends and communities who suffered an unimaginable loss. The names of those killed on that Sunday should never be forgotten - Paddy Doherty, 31; Gerald Donaghey, 17; Jackie Duddy, 17; Hugh Gilmour, 17; Mike Kelly, 17; Michael McDaid, 20; Kevin McElhinney, 17; Barney McGuigan, 41; Gerald McKinney, 35; Willie McKinney, 26; William Nash, 19; Jim Wray, 22; John Young, 17; and John Johnston, 59.

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