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by Helen SweeneyDerry’s city centre trad-ers have begun a fight back against out of town retailing when they turned out in force for a meeting at the Tower Ho-tel on Monday of this week (April 2). Traders ‘ concerns centre on the nine out of town retail planning applications which have been lodged and more than 200 of them filled the downstairs’ function room in the city centre hotel to dis-cuss plans to combat building more of what Glyn Roberts, chief executive of the inde-pendent retailers association (NIRTA), described as “cheap sheds”There was a mood of anger

and frustration in the room as traders turned out to hear a five-point plan designed to save the city centre from more shop closure. There are cur-rently around 130 shop units vacant in the city with fears that many more will have to pull their shutters down for the last time. Derry City Centre Traders’ Fo-rum chairman, Martin McCros-san told the audience that the city could not sustain even one more out of town devel-opment.“I can’t keep walking around Derry to see shutters down and meet people asking for answers when I have none to

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Airport name change rowby Helen Sweeney

The SDLP, DUP and UPP have scuppered Sinn Fein Councillor Elisha McCallion’s mo-tion which asked that Derry City Council look into changing the name of the city airport to Amelia Earhart.Councillor McCallion who put forward the motion at the council’s full monthly meeting said that she was disappointed and accused the other parties of failing to gauge public enthusiasm for the idea.“This journey is known throughout the world and the time is right on the 80th anniversary of Amelia Earhart landing in what was Galla-gher’s field,” she said. “I know that there might be caution because of the extra cost of re branding but I feel that it is important that we look into innovative ideas.”SDLP councillor Brenda Stevenson said that the link with Amelia Earhart was “tenuous”. “We don’t feel that the time is right and consultation has to be done in the mouth of 2013, it would be confusing ,” she said.DUP councillor Gary Middleton said that his party “shared the view of the SDLP”. “But of course we would not be against anything that could impact on visitor potential,” he said.

Councillor McCallion replied that the motion simply asked for the idea to be looked into and said that 2013 was the perfect time for the name change.“It’s almost free publicity,” she said. “The mo-tion simply asks that we take the necessary steps to look into it. It’s disappointing that the other parties don’t seem to be in line with the popluar mood on this. There are festivals to honour Amelia Earhart. Hilary Clinton at-tended a four day seminar in honour of her,” she said.

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A 41-year-old Derry man has been given a suspended sentence and placed under a probation order for 12 months after he ad-mitted possession of cannabis. The court heard that police were called by his former partner on November 2 last year and that she had alleged that Thom-as Doherty whose address was given as Knockalla Park had assaulted her and made threats to her and to damage her property. When police went to Doherty’s home the court heard that he had spat and head butted an officer and that a small amount of herbal cannabis had been discovered in Doherty’s trouser pocket during a search.The court then heard that Doherty was again discovered to be in possession of can-nabis on February 11 this year after he was searched at a house during an unrelated incident. Doherty confirmed that the can-nabis was his.

Doherty’s solicitor Mr Paddy McDermott said that the relationship relating to the first incident had been “fraught” but had since ended and that his client was concentrating on looking after his children. Mr McDermott also told the court that his client had long standing issues with alcohol and substance abuse.District Judge Barney McElholm ordered a four month sentence for threats to Doherty’s ex-partner and suspended it for two years. He was also ordered to do 100 hours community service plus an additional 12 months under a probation order. Doherty was given a further one month suspended sentence for assaulting a police officer and one month suspended sentence for resisting arrest. All sentences are concur-rent. He was further ordered to pay £200 in fines for possession of cannabis.

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Police in Derry are appealing for informa-tion after a 21-year-old man was attacked on Derry's Walls last Friday night.The incident happened at a section of the walls near Waterloo Street and has just come to light today.At around 9.30pm, the man was standing with a group of friends when he was at-tacked from behind by an unknown male

who punched him several times on the side of the head causing him to fall to the ground. The victim sustained injuries to the head and was taken to hospital.Police are appealing for information and witnesses. Anyone who was in the area last Friday night is asked to contact police on 0845 600 8000 or call Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

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A district Judge has described a theft committed by Derry man as “as low as you can get” after he appeared before him at Der-ry magistrate’s court.The court heard that Darrell Be-attie, 22, who gave his address at O’Connor Court in the city, stole a bank card from a friend while she was asleep and with-drew £260 from the account.The card, which belonged to the girl’s mother, had been given to her earlier in the day along with the pin number and the girl had allowed her friend to use the card to withdraw cash as well.A solicitor for the public pros-ecution service told the court that it was at this point that Beattie had overheard the pin number for the cash card.The court then heard that the Beattie had been drinking with the other two and that the card was noticed as missing when the girl woke up the next day. The card had been retained by the ATM machine after Beattie had used it.The court also heard that Be-attie had attended the police

Information sought on sexual assault reportDetectives are appealing for information following a report of a sexual as-sault in the Waterloo Place area of Derry during the early hours Monday April 2.Shortly before 2.30am, it is alleged a female in her twenties was attacked by an unknown male. The male is described as black and was wearing a white T-shirt. Police are seeking to identify the male and are keen to speak to any-one who was in the area at the time.Anyone with information is asked to contact Detec-tives on 0845 600 8000. Or, if someone would pre-fer to provide information confidentially, they can contact the independent charity Crimnestoppers and speak to them anony-mously on 0800 555 111.

station voluntarily on July 9 last year and admitted the theft say-ing that he had been on a two-day drinking binge and had no money.Beattie’s solicitor Mr Seamus Quigley said that it could be conceded that this was a “nasty” offence.“He is deeply ashamed of his ac-tions and is lucky that he has no previous record, “said Mr Quig-ley.“He did make full admissions at the first opportunity and I would ask that a community service order might be an ap-propriate way to dispose of the case.”Judge Barney McElholm said that while Beattie had no previ-ous convictions he noted that the theft was “as low as you can get” before handing down a three month sentence which he suspended for two years. He also ordered compensation of £300 to be paid to the injured party and allowed 26 weeks to pay.“If you had any previous con-victions you would have gone straight to jail,” he said.

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Story continued from Page 1 give them. We have a room full of people here at 6pm on a Monday night who em-ploy 2,200 between them, does that not tell you something?” he said.“We already have the problems of car park-ing, closed shops, high overheads- these out of town developments can’t be sus-tained. “I am delighted to see so many people here from Spencer Road, Gobnascale and Cloo-ney Terrace. I am delighted that they know that when we say city centre we mean all of us together. “There is half a million square feet of out of town retailing in the pipeline and we are here tonight to say that we can’t take one more never mind nine.”Mr McCrossan also appealed to Derry’s poli-ticians to listen to the traders. “We know that you are getting it from all sides but please will you listen to the people in this room. Hear what they have to tell you,” he said.A plan formulated by the City Centre Ini-tiative, Derry Traders’ Forum and NIRTA has called for Derry to be designated as an enterprise zone which would mean rates’ holidays, incentives for new businesses. Traders also called for a retail development plan to push the city-centre as a location for new retail development and allow for vacant shops to be prepared for new busi-ness opportunities.Speaking to the City Herald, William Grant who owns shoe-repair shop Walk Rite on Great James Street said that any help trad-ers could get to curb the flow of shoppers to out of town retail parks would be wel-

come.“I go to the gym on Crescent Link and on a Sunday morning I see people queuing down the street outside Starbucks waiting for it to open. When was the last time you saw that in the city-centre? It just doesn’t happen.“I have been in business 30 years and it has never been so tough. Everyone here will tell you the same thing, it’s a struggle just to keep the doors open. I have one em-ployee and its tough even trying to keep him on.“Rates are a huge issue for us, we have too many big overheads and no one seems to be helping us,” he said.Peter McKenzie who owns Café Bloom and formerly owned Bookworm spoke at length about the lack of vision shown over city centre plans.“We are kidding ourselves if we think that out of town shopping is the only problem,” he said. “The Culture Company and Ilex need to work with the private sector. I ap-proached Derry City Council nine months ago with a marketing idea which was that if people had breakfast in my café they could get reduced entry into the tower museum and have I heard anything- no. It falls on the private sector to regenerate the city and what we need to do is do all we can to make it a different space. We need to make it a living space and make it vibrant. There has always been a bias against Derry. City of Culture got £10 million and Titanic got £100 million. Our historic walls are much more interesting than bloody Titanic,” he said.

Peter McKenzie, owner of Cafe Bloom, addresses the city centre Traders in a meeting at The Tower Hotel

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by Helen SweeneyPlans to restore Waterside rail-way station to its former glory and original purpose have been given the thumbs up by Derry City Council.A motion tabled by DUP coun-cillor Drew Thompson was roundly supported by the chamber as Translink consider the future of Derry’s railway ser-vices. Councillor Thompson asked that the old station at the bot-tom of King Street be brought back into use as it made eco-nomic sense and would pre-serve the heritage of one of the

city’s listed buildings, which he noted were dwindling in num-ber.Councillor Thompson called the current station an “upside down egg box” and said that the city had a chance to have “a unique entry point”.“The Waterside has fewer listed buildings that the cityside and it is crucial that we preserve the ones that we have,” he said.“When these buildings are gone, they are gone forever. By committing to refurbish-ing this building we are send-ing a strong message that the people of this city value its built

heritage.”Sinn Fein councillor Lynn Flem-ing said that while it was im-portant to be aware of the cost involved, he party had no prob-lem in supporting the motion.“What we would really like to see is a train leaving Derry and then going to Belfast and then on to Dublin,” she said. “That is the opportunity that this city needs.”SDLP councillor Martin Reilly said that in the interim the council should call on Translink to make sure that the current station was adequately staffed for the journeys it provides.

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Poots to brief on killer bug outbreak Health Minister Edwin Poots is to update the Stormont health committee this week on how the review of the pseudomonas outbreak is progressing. A review panel from the Regu-lation and Quality Improve-ment Authority is investigating the deaths of four babies who had contracted the infection.Mr Poots received the interim

report from the independent team last Friday. Its first stage addresses the causes and impact of the out-break, and the full report is due by the end of May. Three babies died in the Royal Jubilee Maternity Unit in Janu-ary, while another newborn died at Londonderry's Altnagel-vin Hospital in December.

All 175 taps in Northern Ire-land's neo-natal units are being replaced, with priority being given to taps where contamina-tion had been detected.Neo-natal wards also conduct-ed deep cleans and intensive checks for the bacteria that can be found in water supply units. Only sterile water is being used for the direct care of patients

The PSNI in Foyle are reminding the community to keep their homes safe. Following a num-ber of thefts, Area Commander Chief Inspector Garry Eaton said now is a good time to re-think home security.“It can be easy to forget to lock a window or door in your house or car from time to time but it is important not to get compla-cent about securing your prop-erty,” he said. “We are urging people to make sure their car doors and win-dows are locked at all times, es-pecially at night. Lock up sheds and garages and don’t leave bikes or tools outside. Check windows and doors and make

Deter burglars - close and lock windows and doorssure they are locked at night or if you are away from home.”The PSNI has produced a sim-ple checklist to use:Check all doors and windows in homes and cars are secure and locked. Do not leave valuables in cars. If there are any bicycles, toys or garden equipment sit-ting around the outside of the house, put them away.If you have outbuildings that store valuable possessions or have doors that lead to your house, lock them securely.If away from home, make your house look occupied by putting lights and/or a radio on timer switches. Set a burglar alarm if

one is fitted to your home. Chief Inspector Eaton said that neighbours can also help keep your house safer. “Neighbours can look out for each other. You know who lives on your street so if you see someone acting suspiciously note down any important de-tails such as a description or a car registration and contact po-lice. We will follow up on your call and there is every possibil-ity your information could pre-vent a crime.”If you need advice on how to make your home safer, call your local PSNI station on 0845 600 8000 and ask to speak to a Crime Prevention Officer.

A 43-year-old man who pulled out in front of a police car while driving with twice the legal limit of alcohol taken has been disqualified for 16 months after he pleaded guilty to the offence at Derry Magistrate’s Court.The court heard that Sean Anthony McNamee who has an address at Cornshell Fields had pulled out onto Bradley’s pass directly into the path of

an oncoming police car on February 19 this year.After he was cautioned po-lice he told the officer, “you have to take you oil” and he was then taken to Strand Road police station where the low reading of a breath test showed that he had 107 mi-crograms of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood.McNamee’s solicitor told the court that his client had taken

full responsibility for his ac-tions from the start and knew that he was “the author of his own misfortune”. “He told po-lice that he had to take his oil, meaning that he knew that accepted what he had done.”District Judge Barney McEl-holm allowed McNamee to apply for a drink driving course which would enable him to reduce the period of disqualification to 12 months.

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A district judge has branded the behaviour of a man who punched a police officer and urinated in his cell after he was arrested as “disgraceful”.Sean Donnelly, 32, who has an address at Bluebell Gardens in the city admitted all charges when he appeared at Derry magis-trate’s court. The court heard that the incident had start-ed after Donnelly began to shout abuse at a police patrol at Waterloo Place in the early hours of February 26 this year. Donnelly swore at officers and shouted “The RUC are out in force tonight” during a patrol by the ‘City Safe’ unit.The court heard that while officers had ini-tially ignored Donnelly and his friend, Don-nelly then punched an officer in the face and the force of the blow had knocked the con-stable into the shutters of a shop.

After his arrest Donnelly then spat on the dash board and the steering wheel of the police car and also urinated in his cell during the night.A solicitor for the public prosecution service told the court that it had cost £166 to clean the police car and £10 costs were incurred for cleaning the cell.Donnelly’s solicitor Paddy McDermott told the court that is client’s behaviour was “not good” and put his actions down to bravado resulting from intoxication.“He accepts that his actions were wrong. He is 32 now and should know better,” said Mr McDermott.Judge McElholm ordered that Donnelly should serve 100 hours community service and placed him under a 12 month probation order. He also ordered him to pay £176 in compensation to the PSNI.

Police are appealing for information af-ter a car windscreen was smashed on the Trench Road in the Waterside area during the early hours of Saturday morning. The window of a silver MG car was smashed sometime between midnight on Friday

Solicitors in Derry took in more than £6 million in legal aid payments in the period covering 2010 to 2011, according to infor-mation just released by the Northern Ire-land Legal Services Commission.Derry firm Quigley Kyle and Grant re-ceived a total of £966,636 in legal aid pay-ments during that year while McDermott, McGurk and partners were paid £886,000. The payments were included in a list of 100 solicitors’ practices throughout North-ern Ireland and while none of the Derry firms topped the £1 million mark for legal aid payments Belfast based solicitors Kev-in R Winters and Co took in more than £2.5 million.The total claimed by the 11 Derry solici-tors’ listed was £6,101,028. A statement released by the Northern Ire-land Legal Services Commission to accom-pany the publication of the figures said that by revealing the information the body was confirming its commitment to the key principles of “openness and transparency” in its stewardship of public funds.

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Commenting on the release of the details of the payments made, Ronnie Spence, Chair of the Northern Ireland Legal Servic-es Commission, said: “The Commission is committed to transparency in accounting for significant sums of public money paid out of the legal aid fund. I welcome the continued co-operation of the Law Soci-ety and the Bar Council in the publication of this information.“The amounts paid to each barrister and solicitors’ practice listed may represent payments for work undertaken across a number of years and for a variety of cases.”Solicitors John Fahy and Co claimed a to-tal of £790,000 in legal aid payments while Brendan Kearney and Co and Caldwell and Robinson claimed £538,000 and £523,000 respectively.The full information is available for down-load from the NILSC’s website at www.nilsc.org.uk

night and 8.30am on Saturday morning. Police are appealing for witnesses or if any-one has any information is asked to con-tact police on 0845 600 8000 or call the in-dependent charity Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

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Councillors bid fond farewells to veteran Sinn Fein councillor Gerry McLochlainn this month as he attended his last ever monthly Derry City council meeting.Councillor MacLochlainn has represent-ed the Northland ward on Derry City Council for more than ten years but has said that stepping down from his current role will allow him more time to focus on international affairs for Sinn Fein. Party colleague Lynn Fleming paid trib-ute to him and said that no one in the council chamber could deny the impor-tant role that he had played particularly in terms of Derry City airport and in the council progress in waste management. “I wish you all the best in your future work and send my wishes to Sinead and all the family,” she said.Her tributes were echoed by DUP coun-cillor Joe Millar who said that despite po-litical differences, he had always found councillor MacLochlainn to be a “straight

and honest person”. Similar sentiments were expressed by councillor Mary Hamilton and mayor Maurice Devenney.Councillor McLochlainn joked that the chamber had “better listen” as this was his “last chance to say anything”. “I would finish by quoting Tony Benn who said that he was giving up parlia-ment to spend more time in politics,” he said.

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A taxi driver has been given a suspended sentence and ordered to pay a £1,000 com-pensation order after he was found guilty of stealing radio equipment from his former employer.John Joseph Powell who has an address at Galliagh Park took the equipment in June

last year.The court heard that the inci-dent was entirely out of char-acter for Powell who was a man of “strong family values” and of good work ethic.Powell’s solicitor told the court that while the amount of money involved in the inci-dent seemed like a large sum,

the equipment was only of use to the taxi firm and could not have easily been sold on for cash.District Judge McElholm or-dered that the two-month jail sentence be suspended for 18 months and allowed Powell 26 weeks to pay the money back to the taxi firm owner.

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Shoplifter appears in courtA 39-year-old Derry woman has admitted one count of shoplift-ing but denied a second after she appeared at Derry magis-trate’s court to face both charges.Elaine Bradley who has an ad-dress at Altcar Park pleaded guilty to taking a dinner set worth £30 from Dunnes Stores in Foyleside on December 20 2010. But Bradley denied a sec-ond charge of taking two Hugo Boss perfume sets from Boots in the shopping centre on the same date.Bradley will re appear at court on April 20 to fix a date for contest.

Police are appealing for infor-mation after a substantial quan-tity of lead was stolen from the roof of a school in Derry.The theft at Long Tower Prima-ry School on Bishop Street oc-curred sometime after 6pm on Monday night, (March 26) and 8am the next morning.Local police would encourage residents to look out for un-usual or suspicious activity at all schools. 'Work men' work-ing at unusual times or out of the ordinary 'comings and go-ings' can all be signs of illegal activity.

Neighbourhood Inspector Trevor McKeown said: "These type of thefts cause damage which needs repaired and is costly for the schools. We are appealing to anyone who lives near schools to report any ac-tivity around the buildings, outside of school hours to us straight away. We appeal to the local com-munity to be vigilant and re-port any type of suspicious activity. If you notice anything out of place or untoward in your area contact us immedi-ately on 0845 600 8000."

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A 22-year-old Derry man has been given a four-month suspended sentence and been electronically tagged after he pleaded guilty to charges of drink driving and assaulting a police officer in two separate incidents.John James Starrs whose address was given to the court as Milltown View in Drumahoe was stopped by police while driving a silver BMW car on December 18 last year. Police had stopped Starrs after receiving a phone call from a member of the public who suspected that he was drink driving. Starrs had left a house in Newbuildings in the car and was stopped by police on Cloo-ney Terrace. Police noticed that he smelled strongly of alcohol and that his eyes were glazed. A breath test conducted at Strand Road police station revealed that he had taken more than twice the legal limit of al-cohol for driving.It was also discovered that Starrs had taken the vehicle without the owner’s permission and that the owner had been forced to pay £150 to recover the car from police.The court also heard that Starrs had been involved in a second incident on Janu-ary 30 this year after police were called to

Shipquay Street following a fight being seen on CCTV.When police tried to break up the fight be-tween Starrs and a second male, Starrs be-gan to make offensive remarks to officers and during his subsequent arrest he lashed out at an officer, striking him on the leg.Starr’s solicitor Mr Paddy McDermott said that his client was aware that he had placed his liberty in jeopardy and said that the pre sentence report had recommended that his client could be placed under an electronic tag at the weekends as this was the time he was most likely to get into trouble. District Judge Barney McElholm noted that the device could not be used at weekends only and ordered that Starrs should be tagged for a period of 60 days alongside a curfew from 10pm to 8am.He also handed down a four month sen-tence suspended for two years and dis-qualified him from driving for three years plus a £200 fine. Judge McElholm further ordered that Starrs be placed under an 18 month probation or-der and that he seek the appropriate coun-selling for drug and or alcohol misuse.

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Derry City Council have given the green light to proposals for a new Irish language hotel in Derry city centre.Council approved plans to transform Cul-turlann's old premises at 34 Great James Street into a 12-bedroom accommodation centre which will hopefully be ready for next year's Fleadh celebrations. It is hoped the hotel will bring the area one step clos-er to becoming a world-class urban Gael-tacht quarter."We are at the development stage and are now in the process of seeking funding for the project," says An Culturlann's Anne

Marie Gallagher."We hope to be able to provide a place that people can come and have a truly amazing experience in Irish. We want this area to become Ceathru Gaeltachta - the Gaeltacht Quarter. It has massive tourism potential."Our scope really depends on funding. We may have a B&B type scenario or if we achieve more funding we will go down the road for a hotel. It certainly is a possibil-ity. We can see the vision for the Gaeltacht Quarter. We will start small and grow as time goes on."

A man who ran into a telephone box and wrapped a phone wire around his neck to stop police arresting him has been given a five month suspended sentence after he ap-peared at Derry magistrate’s court.Stephen Ansell, 29, whose address was given as Bracken Park drew the attention of PSNI officers after he raised his middle fin-ger to a passing patrol on Sackville Street on New Year’s Eve past.After being stopped Ansell also swore at of-ficers and gave a false name and address. He

then ran off and was found in a phone box at Custom Hall Street where he wrapped the phone wire around his neck to stop po-lice from removing him to arrest him.Ansell’s solicitor Mr Seamus Quigley told the court that his client was “a bit long in the tooth” for this type of behaviour and said that Ansell had stopped offending some time ago.“This might be just a blip,” he added.Ansell was also fined £200 and allowed 20 weeks to pay.

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TRUE COLOURS is the eagerly awaited new play from the local writer Martin O’Brien, who had huge success first time around with his much acclaimed debut play ‘Two Little Boys’.‘Two Little Boys’ got rave reviews from critics and audiences a like setting O’Brien up as one to watch for the fu-ture.The playwright has put together a great cast and with director in Gerry Newton on board the outing will no doubt bring a first class play not to be missed.Due to the success of ‘Two Little Boys’, the Millennium Forum will also be stag-ing the play later in the year.True Colours is a mix of drama tension and wry humour and has a plot that is sure to keep audiences on the edge of their seats. Plenty of laughs are guar-

anteed but the new play also shows O’Brien’s serious side.The action in True Colours centres on American man Jim who is doing his last ever bet at his local bookmakers in Derry.He's putting on his life savings but there's more than money to worry about…..Everyone wants a piece of the action! Is life is but a gamble?It looks like a third date will have to be added to the already planned dates of April 19 and 20 as ticket sales are doing so well.This is a truly top quality play from a lo-cal writer and simply cannot be missed.

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This month the City Herald talks to Sho-na McCarthy Chief Executive of the Cul-ture Company about plans for 2013 and why Derry will feel the benefit of winning the bid for years to come.While it may seem like a long time since Derry won the bid to become UK City of Culture in 2013, the Culture Company hasn’t exactly been resting on its laurels you know. Working in partnership with Ilex and Derry City Council, amongst others, events for 2013 include The All Ireland Fleadh, The Turner Prize and GAA National Congress and that’s before the culture company has announced it’s programme of events.Despite public criticism about a lack of in-formation on what’s going on, after the bid was won, the difficult task of setting up the company, with no money in the pot, had to be undertaken and as Shona points out, City of Culture 2013 at that stage was “pure-ly aspirational”.But in the next couple of weeks, we’ll all know what the head line events for 2013 will be and that will be followed in Septem-ber by a detailed programme for the whole year with an official handover from the Cul-tural Olympiad to Derry’s own campaign.And while Shona can’t let any of the events out of the bag just yet , she promises that we won’t be disappointed, with something different on the programme every month. With programming and funding (the Northern Ireland Executive is about to an-nounce a multi-million pound package for 2013) the Culture Company has already be-gun the task of calling home the Irish dias-pora to take part in the events of next year, which if all goes well, could transform the shape of the city for years to come. Shona was on the campaign trail with the First and Deputy First Ministers as they plugged the city and Northern Ireland to the great and the good in Washington earlier this month. “I’m just back from Washington and Cana-da where Derry was on the agenda at the Northern Ireland Bureau Business Breakfast in Washington business,” said Shona. “To get exposure like that is just amazing. The reception we got there was incredible and people are genuinely interested in City of Culture and what our plans are.“We estimate that an extra 110,000 visitors a month, including those coming home for the celebrations, will be arriving in the city next year and that’s a conservative esti-mate because we feel that we would rather underestimate and then over achieve than the other way around.”Realistic and meticulous planning, both in terms of financial and cultural progam-ming is something that Shona and the cul-ture company team have underpinned the

City of Culture chief Shona McCarthy pictured in Toronto, with First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, as the trio promote Derry & Northern Ireland tourism.

project with. “While I would say that all we had to start with was an aspiration, an idea, we have also been realistic because we had to be- after all we started the project with abso-lutely no funding in place.“The team has been working 15-hour days since last April and so I feel that some of the criticism and levelled at us has been unfair.“We had to be realistic because you can’t just announce a programme of events over night and while I understand that people are waiting to find out what’s happening, it does take time and of course it takes mon-ey.“We had to get a team of people in place and build links with other organisations. We decided from the start that we would

work closely with bodies such as Ilex, the City Centre Initiative and the Chamber of Commerce because we felt that it was im-portant that everybody who wanted to should play a role in 2013.“But what is really great is that community groups are now coming to us and telling us what role they would like to play in events. “Next year coincides with Nelson Drive’s 50th anniversary for example and we have idea s from the Brandywell/Bogside groups as well as groups in Shantallow and Gali-agh. Their participation is every bit as im-portant as what the headline events will bring to the city. “There is also the issue of campaign weari-ness and we didn’t want people to get sick of hearing about what’s happening in 2013

and as well as that we were aware of the on going Titanic project and wanted the launch of that done and dusted so that we could have our own space.“That’s why the handing over by the cul-tural Olympiad in September is so great, with the Olympics over we can really con-centrate on getting our message out there. “But of course I understand that there has been something of a hiatus between winning the bid and announcing the pro-gramme and of course when you have a vacuum that can be a great breeding ground for negativity but in the next few weeks I hope that all that will be forgotten.”In terms of negativity the culture company has had more to deal with than most as the very term UK City of Culture has caused its

Culture company to announce

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main events

From winning bid to end stage, the city of culture buzz is about to start again.

own problems from the off as political op-posites have fought to have the UK either included or excluded .“Look, we live in Northern Ireland and with anything you will get that and we have just had to deal with it and work with it,” said Shona.“In all sorts of ways the project has been about balance and compromise but we want to make it clear that this is all for the entire city and beyond and that everyone who can and wants to will benefit from it.”The long term benefits of 2013 are expect-ed to be felt for the next 20 years and there are nine planning applications for hotels currently in play with a Premier Inn about to open in the Waterside this summer.“I think we had a deficit of accommodation in the city anyway and while its great for

people coming here next year, in terms of employment and infrastructure, the ben-efits will be felt for a long time and that is where bodies such as Ilex come into play.“In terms of next year this is our showcase and our chance to open up the whole if the North West to the tourist industry.“We couldn’t have been City of culture in a better year, as the Ireland takes the EU Presidency, we have the hand over from the Olympiad to launch our full programme and we are linking up with the Irish Tour-ist Board project ‘The Gathering’ which ex-pects an extra 300,000 more visitors to Ire-land from people coming home.“I’m sorry I can’t tell you what the main events are, I would love to but I would be in so much trouble,” laughed Shona. “I prom-ise you that you won’t be disappointed.”

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Carmel McGillowayFormerly of Brendan Kearney and Co.

Is now trading as McKeone Mc Gilloway Solicitors.In partnership with Cormac Mc Keone.

For appointments with either solicitor please contact us at 71265566Or call to 1 Carlisle Terrace, L’Derry

(facing Craigavon Bridge on the City side)

We Offer advice and representation in the following areas.

Matrimonial/Family Law

Private Client/CommercialPersonal Injury Claims

Conveyancing (North/South)

Estate Planning/ Probate &TrustsEmployment Law

Criminal Law

Email at [email protected]@mckeonemcgilloway.com

Explain the background to the set up of the business and the motivation for set up?

Cormac and I were colleagues in Brendan Kearney’s office a number of years ago. He left in 2001 to establish his own practice McKeone and Co and asked me to join him a few months ago. I had always wondered what it would be like to run my own practice and decided to rise to the challenge. Having worked for someone else for so many years the flexibility and autonomy that being my own boss would afford me appealed to me.

What is your own background?

Since qualifying as a solicitor I worked with Brendan Kearney and Co and was a partner there for almost 20 years. I was educated at Thornhill College and Queens University Belfast. The type of work I did was mainly family law and litigation, but I have considerable experience in many other aspects of the law having worked in a very busy general practice for so long. Cormac has 10 years as a sole prac-titioner, during which time he has established a solid client base.

What are the main services that the business offers in the area?

Cormac and I offer a truly fully comprehensive legal service for clients. We both have skills in different aspects of the law which complement each other-Family/Matrimonial LawPersonal Injury claimsConveyancing/Private client commercial workWills/ProbateEstate Management/TrustsEmployment LawCriminal Law

In the present climate do you view quality of service as essential?

Quality of service is quintessential to running a successful business in any climate not to talk of the current climate. Ultimately, clients are free to decide who they wish to represent them and are entitled to the highest standards of service possible which is what we aim to provide. At the end of the day there is no better advertisement for

your business than a client who feels that you have done your best for them in the circumstances of their particular case.

What are the main challenges for your business and how do you overcome them?

Clearly these are difficult times economically and that in itself is a challenge, however hard work and a conscientious approach combined with self belief goes a long way to help to overcome the challenges that we all face.This combined venture is in its infancy and it is about establishing McKeone McGilloway as a practice with a reputation for reliability and excellent quality of service. A bit of luck helps too - then again you generate your own luck- isn’t that what they say?

What are the chief qualities that customers are looking for in a legal business at the minute?

My experience to date as a solicitor in Derry has taught me that if a client feels that you have a sincere interest in the best possible outcome for them in their case, you treat them with respect and are straightforward and direct in your dealings with them and provide them with value for money then they will be content with the service. In matrimonial cases, I truly believe that the ability to listen and process what you are hearing in a sympathetic and humane way is vital. Dealing with their business expeditiously and without delay is also clearly fundamental.

What advice would you give to people looking to set up in their own business?

With regards to anyone considering opening a business I would say follow your instinct. If your gut feeling is to take the leap go for it unless of course there are very obvious reasons why you shouldn’t. Having said that usually where there is a will there is a way! Clearly, a degree of caution should be exercised in terms of not being entirely reckless. Another thing to remember is that very often opportunities in life appear when we need them to, not necessarily when we want them to - so never reject an opportunity as completely out of hand without some consideration. Be honest and have integrity in your dealings with others and, where possible, keep things simple.

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BUSINESS

Are you the parent of a child/children in respect of whom you are not having any contact? Are you the parent of a child/children who feels that the other parent is not playing fair with regards to contact and perhaps being inconsistent in their approach which is leaving the children confused and unsettled? There are ways of remedying those types of situation should the parties wish to re-solve them. Sometimes when relationships end on a sour note the children get caught up in the crossfire between the two people who profess to care about them. Some parents deliberately use the children to punish the other absentee parent by refusing them contact either direct (face to face) or in-direct (e g phone calls etc). Other parents deny contact if the absentee parent is not paying any or sufficient child maintenance not perhaps fully understanding that very often children have divided loyalties as be-tween two parents and even if the e adults cant stand the sight of each other children -although sometimes take sides-generally want to be in touch with both parents. If you are an adult in any of the above situ-ations or find yourself in similar situations

there is help available for you. Communi-cation directly between former partners can become fraught and difficult with emotions running high and dictating the tone of any discussions but you can seek legal advice to help sort things out. Legal aid is available to those who are eligible so you may be able to access help pretty much for free. If you do consult a solicitor usually a let-ter is sent initially to the other side seek-ing some resolution of the problem. If that resolves things then so be it. If it doesn't an application can be made to the Family Proceedings Court -which sits every week- to try and have the issue resolved using the expertise of various professionals who work in the court system. The application is listed and again at every stage attempts are made to find a way forward without the requirement for a contentious court battle. Mediation is offered to the parties if the court or the parties feel it would as-sist. There is a team of Court Childrens Of-ficers (CCOs) assigned to the FPC who are highly skilled professionals with a lot of experience in this area and they can talk to the adults and indeed the children (if it is deemed appropriate to do so) to ascer-tain how everyone feels and try and bro-

ker a solution that everyone can live with that is child centred. If mediation does not succeed the parties can have a contested hearing and the court will decide the out-come. As far as the court is concerned the wel-fare of the child/children is paramount and whatever is in the best interests of the child will guide the court if it is forced to make a decision. In general it is best if the parties with the help of lawyers, CCOs and the court can come to an agreed formula for the chil-dren. Court imposed solutions generally do not please everyone or in some cases anyone and experience has shown that scenarios worked out by agreement have a greater chance of succeeding in the lon-ger term. Applications can be determined in respect of children up to the age of 16 in the FPC in contact cases. There are some exceptions but that is the usual position. Once children reach a certain age in any event they will vote with their feet very of-ten and there is not much that the court or anyone else can do about it in real terms. If the best interests of the child remains the focal point of the parents even if they are in dispute about certain aspects then

there will eventually be a good outcome. The court system will review and deal with further applications in respect of children should the need arise even after a final or-der is made.

If you have any queries or need advice in relation to family matters please contact Carmel Mc Gilloway Mc Keone Mc Gilloway Solicitors 1 Carlisle Terrace Derry 02871 265566 or e mail [email protected]

Contact with children

To arrange an appointment contact the office on 02871 265566 or e mail [email protected] or [email protected]

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Dr McEvoy’s retirement celebration

Dr. Paddy McEvoy who is retiring from Aberfoyle Medical Practice pictured with his family, from left, Dermot Hill, Mark, Hazel, Frances

and Siobhan McEvoy, and Glynn Casswell.

Aberfoyle Medical Practice partners wishing Dr. Paddy McEvoy well in his retirement, from left, Donna Mace, Angela Loftus, Richard Mullan, Neil

McKeon, Diarmuid Deburca, Martin McCloskey, Orla Quigley and John O’Kelly.

Dr. Paddy McEvoy, second left, pictured with retired Aberfoyle Medical Practice partners, from left, Dr. Bronagh McMahon, Dr Tom McGinley and

Dr. Vincent Cavanagh.

Dr. Paddy McEvoy pictured with his wife Hazel on his retirement from Aberfoyle Medical Practice after 34 years service.

Dr. Paddy McEvoy with Jean Begley, left, Aberfoyle Medical Practice manager, and Dorothy Cairns, nurse practitioner.

Consultant neurologist Mark McCarron wishing Dr. Paddy McEvoy well in his retirement.

Page 20 NEWSSt Columb’s Park assaultPolice in Foyle are appealing for in-formation following an assault that occurred in St. Columbs Park, last Tuesday March 27.At around 8pm, a group of youths were playing football in the park when they were approached by an unknown, intoxicated male who punched one of the youths in the face in an unprovoked attacked., The assailant is described as being in his twenties and was wearing jeans and a Manchester United top. It is believed he left the park along with a female and young child and they were picked up at St. Columb’s Park Leisure Centre.Police are keen to speak to witness-es or the taxi driver. Anyone who has any information should contact police at Strand Road on 0845 600 8000 or call Crimestoppers in confi-dence on 0800 555 111.

Gobnascale BurglaryDetectives in Foyle are appealing for information following a burglary in the Gobnascale area on Mon-day morning, April 2. Sometime between 9.40am and 11.50am a house at Camelia Court was broken into and a number of items stolen. The items stolen were: A black 32" Toshiba Television; Black Samsung Laptop Computer; Black 16" TV/DVD Combo Unit; a black co-loured suitcase with a red strap and a quantity of prescription drugs.Anyone who noticed any suspi-cious activity in the Camelia Court area or knows of anyone selling similar goods in suspicious circum-stances should contact Detectives at Strand Road on 0845 600 8000 or call Crimestoppers in confidence on 0800 555 111.

Waterside Fire AppealPolice in Foyle are appealing for in-formation following a suspicious fire in the Gobnascale area of the Water-side on March 30.A part of the rubber safety matting at the Children’s Play Park at Campi-on Court had been set alight shortly before 10.30pm causing significant damage. There were no reports of any injuries.A group of youths were in the area at the time and police are appeal-ing for information to help identify those responsible.Anyone who may have witnessed the incident or was in the area or has any information is asked to contact Police on 0845 600 8000 or confi-dentially call Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

POLICE in G-District have issued a reminder about the permit-ted opening hours of licensed premises over the Easter period.On Thursday, April 5, the hours are 11.30am to 11pm, with half-an-hour drinking up time. Only premises with an Article 44, ‘late licence’, may remain open to serve alcohol until 12am mid-night (with half-an-hour drink-ing up time).

On Good Friday, April 6, the hours are 5pm to 11pm, with half-an-hour drinking-up time. No additional hours are allowed. Off-licences may open from 8am to 11pm.On Saturday, April 7, the hours are 11.30am to 11pm, with half-an-hour drinking-up time. Premises with an Article 44 li-cence or a late licence' can stay open to midnight, with half-an-

hour drinking-up time.The permitted hours for Easter Sunday are 12.30pm to 10pm with half-an-hour drinking-up time. No additional hours are al-lowed and off-licences are not permitted to open. Normal opening hours apply to Easter Monday and Easter Tues-day.Licensing officer for G-District, Constable Paul Larkin, has

asked people to abide by the law to ensure a peaceful Eas-ter for everyone: “Police are keen to see that people enjoy themselves without getting into trouble and without caus-ing annoyance to others. Police will be watching out for offenc-es and inspecting off-licences, licensed premises and places noted for illegal public drink-ing.”

DUP MP Gregory Campbell has said that there are no “political prisoners” in the North’s jails. Mr Campbell was speaking in re-sponse to comments made by Sinn Fein’s Raymond McCartney who has said prisoners taking part in a so-called dirty protest at Maghaberry Prison are “political prisoners.”But Mr Campbell challenged this view and said that a number of those on protest are “convicted criminals.”Sinn Fein has supported pris-oners’ claims that the prison au-thorities went back on an agree-ment brokered in 2010 which was designed to end a policy of full body searches, instead using hi-tech body scanners. Prisoners say the deal was that they would be searched using a Body Orifice

Security Scanner (BOSS) chair.When asked recently if his party regarded the protesters as “po-litical prisoners,” Mr. McCart-ney said: “There’s absolutely no doubt they are in prison as the result of a political legacy.”In response, Gregory Campbell said: “These are criminals who are rightly serving their sentence at Her Majesty’s Prison in Magha-berry after having gone through due process.”He added: “Like those before them, they are not political prisoners, but criminals who, unlike some be-fore them, should serve their full sentence behind bars. Northern Ireland is moving forward and, obviously, some individuals have trouble accepting that reality. As we move forward, we cannot al-low ourselves to be dragged back

by those who use the cover of vio-lence to mask their criminality. “Sinn Fein have moved in recent years from the position these people currently find themselves in. It is reprehensible that they continue to try to engage in re-

visionism by describing these individuals as ‘political prisoners’. “What’s the view of other senior Sinn Fein figures, such as Martin McGuinness and Gerry Adams, on what constitutes a ‘political prisoner’?”

DUP MP Gregory Campbell

Irresponsible dog owners who let their pets foul the city’s pavements may be in line for some tough measures after Derry City Council has said that it has done every-thing possible to tackle the issue.A council spokesman has said that the walkways along the river and the peace bridge are currently be-ing cleaned up to seven times a day but local councillors are still being inundated with complaints from constituents about the dog mess.Almost £2 million a year is being spent on tackling the problem and council staff have said that the way forward may be to direct that funding towards imposing mon-etary penalties on the culprits.

One of the leading figures be-hind the campaign to protect ancient woodlands in Derry says Tree Protection Orders (TPOs) are not worth the paper they are written on.George McLaughlin, vice chair of Prehen Environmental Society, who tried to block the building of four houses in Prehen wood, one of the last remaining areas of ancient woodland in Derry, says TPO’s are completely mean-ingless.His comments come after it was revealed that there have been 12 breaches of tree protection orders in the north west since 2009 - but not a single prosecu-

tion.The north’s environment minis-ter Alex Attwood revealed in the Assembly last week that across the six counties there have been 121 cases of TPO’s having been breached in the last three years, and only one successful pros-ecution.In Derry there have been 10 al-leged breaches since 2009 and a further two in Limavady. There were no prosecutions in the north west.A TPO dictates that it is a crimi-nal offence to cut down, lop, top, uproot or wilfully damage a protected tree in a manner likely to destroy it, without the

consent of the Department of Environment. People convicted of breaching a TPO can be fined up to £100,000.But the vice chair of the Prehen Environmental Society claims development was allowed to go ahead at the ancient woodland despite TPOs being granted on more than 50 trees.“These tree protection orders are completely useless,” Mr McLaughlin says. “It is the Department of Environ-ment who issue TPOs, but they also have a discretionary power to overrule that protection. They (TPOs) are completely meaning-less,” he says.

Easter drinking hours reminder

Campbell slams SFpolitical prisoner tag

Council to clamp down on dog mess Tree protection law not working

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Agnieszka Luczak (Polish Abroad) Gavin McCelgom, Marie Ni Threasaigh & Mark O’Reilly

IIsham, Fatama, Tommy, Antonyo & SeanYongxiog Lu Midi Lu & Aili Lu

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Holy WeekSunday marks the beginning of Holy Week when services begin in St Columb’s Cathe-dral with Holy Communion (Order 1) at 0800 hrs. This will be followed by a service at 11, for which a special order will be provided, of Scripture Readings, anthems and hymns based on the Passion of our Lord. Choral Evensong will be sung by the Cathedral Choir at 4 p.m.The Dean, Dr William Morton, hopes to cel-ebrate the Holy Communion on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday mornings in Holy Week, at 0745 hrs. The Daily Office follows at 10.30am Monday-Saturday, with the service on Tuesday at this time being that of Holy Communion when in attendance will be el-derly and housebound, who normally find it difficult to get out to church. There will be a service each evening at 7.30pm. On Wednesday evening the worship will take the form of a service of healing with the lay-ing-on-of-hands and with special prayers for the sick. On Thursday evening, Maundy Thurs-day, at 7.30pm the Holy Communion will be celebrated in recognition that it was on this evening, the night before He died, that our Lord instituted the Sacrament in the Upper Room.On Good Friday the Dean and Canon John Merrick will conduct a special service, “An Hour At The Cross” between 2pm and 3pm fol-lowed by a short act of worship attended by the boy Choristers, parishioners and friends at the graves of Archbishop William Alexander and his wife, Cecil Frances, in the City Cem-etery. Everyone most welcome to attend.On Easter Eve, April 7, the service of The Litany and Ante-Communion will take place in the Bishop William Alexander Chapel in the Ca-thedral at 1030 hrs.Services on Easter Day will be as follow: 8am Holy Communion (Order 1); 11.00am Festival Choral Eucharist; 4pm Choral Evensong.

Support group formedLocal charity Aware Defeat Depression has formed a free support group for those caring for people affected by the illness or by bi polar disorder.The group aims to offer advice support and a listening ear to those living with the con-ditions and the group will be led by trained facilitators. A spokesman for Aware said that the impact of depression can be enormous and explained the thinking behind the support group.“Surveys show that 40 per cent of those who care for an afflicted love-one are themselves sufficiently distressed to need help.The new support group will meet every Wednesday starting April 11 at the Aware De-feat Depression offices at 56 Strand Road and starts at 11am. For more information call 0845 1 20 29 61.

Richard honoured for his workDerry man Richard Moore, founder of Chil-dren in Crossfire, has been honoured at a special awards ceremony at Stormont.The All Party Group on International Devel-opment this week paid tribute to local peo-ple who have made an outstanding contribu-tion to international development.Richard was given the Lifetime Achievement award in recognition of his tireless campaign-ing and work across the globe. Blinded by a rubber bullet at the age of 10, Richard, in 1996, gave up a successful busi-ness career to found Children in Crossfire and dedicate himself to improving the lives of children across the world suffering priva-tions.Children in Crossfire has become a highly respected international development or-ganisation working in partnership with local organisations, specifically in Tanzania, Ethio-pia and the Gambia, to deliver programmes which protect and promote the rights of young children through the provision of healthcare, education services and advocacy initiatives. Speaking at the awards ceremony, Richard said: “This is an incredible endorsement and acknowledgment of Children in Crossfire and the work that we do in Ireland and Africa. “I see this very much as recognition of the hard work of everyone associated with Chil-dren in Crossfire.

Art and Computer Classes at Older People North West / Age Concern Derry Art classes will be starting at Older People North West/ Age Concern Derry on Tuesday 17th April from 1.30pm-3.30pm. Classes will run for a total of 10 weeks. The classes tar-get various levels of ability including abso-lute beginners, intermediate and advanced! Numbers are limited so early registration is advised. Older People North West/ Age Concern Derry also provide other classes including Gentle Aerobics every Thursday at 2pm, Sequence Dance classes every Tuesday night and “One to One” computer tuition 4 mornings per week. The computer tuition is tailor made for each older person and you will be taught at your own pace of learning. This is the ideal way to learn/ improve your computer skills. For further information or registration for any of the above activities please telephone 028 71 347478.

The International day for the Elimination of Racism and Discrimination which was held at St Augustine's Hall Derry recently and hosted by Foyle Multicultural

Forum, Hands Off My Friend and Total Vibe Radio.

Mayor Maurice Devenney with participants in The International day for the Elimination of Racism and Discrimination

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The countdown is on at the Millennium Fo-rum for the return of one of the best loved musicals of all time, BLOOD BROTHERS, on Monday 16th April for a week-long run.Bill Kenwright presents Willy Russell’s capti-vating and moving tale of twins who, sepa-rated at birth, grow up on opposite sides of the tracks, only to meet again with fateful consequences.The superb score includes ‘Bright New Day’, ‘Marilyn Monroe’ and the emotionally charged hit ‘Tell Me It’s Not True’ as Mau-reen Nolan, of the world-renowned pop group THE NOLAN SISTERS reprises her role as the tragic Mrs Johnstone.Few musicals have received quite such ac-claim as the multi-award winning BLOOD BROTHERS, and Bill Kenwright’s produc-

Maureen Nolan stars in ‘Blood Brothers’ at The Forum

tion, having recently celebrated its 23rd phenomenal year in London, continues to enjoy standing ovations at every devastat-ing performance.

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‘EXHILARATING...ONE OF THE BEST MUSICALS EVER WRITTEN’SUNDAY TIMESBLOOD BROTHERS performs at the Millen-nium Forum from Monday 16th to Saturday 21st April. Tickets are now available from the Box Office. Telephone 71 264455 or visit www.millenniumforum.co.uk

Derry Photographer Connie Green LPPANI and LBIPP of 21st Century Photography pictured here with the two photographs that has seen him through to the finals of the Photographer of the Year 2102 in the Professional Photographers Association of Northern Ireland, which is taking place in the Culloden Hotel, Belfast on the 25th March 2012. Connie’s photos that have been shortlisted to the last five in the clas-sical weddings and pictorial categories has made it through from hundreds of entries from the top photographers in N. Ireland. Connie is the only professional photogra-

pher in Derry who is a qualified member of the PPANI which means that he has to prove his ability to a panel of judges be a fulltime and fully insured he is also a mem-ber of the British Institute of Professional Photographers. Connie who has over 25 years experience as a photographer and is known for providing a top rate service in photography for his clients. One of the nic-est compliments Connie says he gets from his clients is “we met as strangers, but left as friends”. Connie’s ability to not only photograph weddings and portraits in a friendly and relaxed manner which brings

out the best in his clients but also his at-tention to the requirements of his clients makes him a highly sought after photog-rapher for large corporate firms and small businesses alike who frequently seek him to photograph their premises, employees, goods and services. I always listen to the ideas of my clients and incorporate them into the photo shoot whenever possible I also do a lot of off the cuff photography at weddings when ideas will flow on the day and sometimes they make the best photos and also insures for a very individual al-bum for my clients.

Derry Photographer shortlisted for Photographer of the Year 2012

Da Vinci’s Hotel Staff continue to lead the way in customer service

The Grillroom Restaurant at Da Vinci’s

Da Vinci’s Hotel Complex is gearing up in May to celebrate the Hotel’s 12th Birthday and after 12 years of business the hotel con-tinues to be a market leader regionally with a strong focus on customer care. The staffs at Da Vinci’s Hotel are the first hotel in Derry to have completed the World Host Programme, this program is designed to exchange their customer service skills and behaviour. Da Vinci’s Hotel has committed itself further to ensure consistently brilliant standards by having Denise McLaughlin a senior manager at the hotel to qualify as a World Host Facilita-tor. Denise explains, ‘At Da Vinci’s we have an ethos to ensure that our service consistently exceeds our customer expectations and we continually strive to improve to ensure we are the best in our field. With this ethos in mind the World Host Programme was an obvious progression in relation to our staff’s develop-ment, the staff at the London 2012 Olympics have trained in this programme and it offers a dynamic new approach for companies to provide world class service throughout all departments. We have received excellent feedback from our staff and they were all en-thused by its content, the training has been a great motivator to encourage our staff to be professional in the service they provide. This programme is a great stepping stone for

2013 when the eyes of the world will be on Derry and here at Da Vinci’s we are preparing our staff to be world class.’Da Vinci’s Hotel Complex is no stranger to accolades but most recently their accom-modation department has received some regional recognition, with the Housekeep-ing Team reaching the final of the Northern Ireland Hotel Federation Housekeeping Awards. Also Rachael Crossan from the front desk team is a finalist in the North-ern Ireland Hotel Federation Receptionist

Awards. The hotel has also recently an-nounced their 2011 Employee of the Year Aimee Parsons who is part of the recep-tion team. Natasha O’Hea, Sales & Market-ing Manager at Da Vinci’s Hotel says, ‘At Da Vinci’s Hotel we try to ensure our staff feel appreciated whether it is through our em-ployee of the month awards or rewarding those staff members that are constantly commended by customers. We were de-lighted to announce Aimee Parsons as our Employee of the Year for 2011, Aimee

showed an enthusiasm, passion and con-sistently high standards throughout 2011 so although it was a hard choice she was a worthy winner of this prestigious award. It is also great that our Housekeeping Team and Rachael Crossan from our receptionist team have been recognized by the regional industry for their excellence in their field, it is these types of recognitions that build confidence in our staff and also display publically the high standards and brilliant staff we have at Da Vinci’s!’

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Derry Down The Years

Actor Seamus Ball Billy Quigley, 1994 Fire Eater at The Galliagh Festival

Bertie Ahern and McGuinness in Creggan

Former Derry City goalkeepers, Frank Connor and Eddie Mahon The late Billy McLeod, photographer Liam Coyle, former Derry City centre forward

Local Photographer Hugh Gallgher gives us a look at his photo album

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Milanda Bakery, Glen Road Strand Bar before demolition

Three Bishops, Hegarty, Lagan and Daly Waterloo Place before redevelopment New Barcelona signing, Ronaldinho, at Brandywell

Niall Coyle, father of Nadine Coyle

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Stuart Gauld at Monaghan

The Late Frankie RamseyMartina AndersonLocal Photographer Hugh Gallgher gives us a look at his photo album

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Page 28 FEATURESVote for sports awards urges Mary PetersOlympic gold medalist Dame Mary Peters is calling for everyone in Derry to get voting for the Hughes Insurance Sports Volunteer Awards, a new awards programme aiming to recognise and reward Northern Ireland’s unsung sporting heroes. The Hughes Insurance Sports Volunteer Awards is a national awards programme that aims to reward the unsung heroes of local sport in communities across Northern Ireland. The awards will unearth the true sporting heroes in our communities and is open to volunteers from all sports.The awards are running province-wide, fo-cused through 12 branches of Hughes In-surance, and each location will have a win-ner when voting closes and the decisions

are made by a sporting judging panel in the summer.Olympic gold medalist, Dame Mary Peters, said “I know there is some fantastic work being done by sports volunteers and I am encouraging the people of Derry to nomi-nate a volunteer from a local sporting club or society to give us an opportunity to re-ward them for all their hard work.”Hughes Derry Branch Manager Gareth Fin-lay added “We are encouraging everyone in Derry to visit the branch or go online to our website to cast their vote. We’re in-credibly passionate about sport in our local community and have launched the awards to give volunteers across the province the recognition they deserve. The more nomi-

Derry Branch Manager Gareth Finlay with Dame Mary Peters

Local charity Action Cancer is delighted that its Health Action programme is reaching even more children and young people in Derry - now educating all ages about healthy lifestyles, in an effort to combat cancer.Very young nursery children right up to college students can now take part in the Health Action programme, which has al-ready reached more than 420,000 children in Northern Ireland since 2003. And this num-ber is set to rise as a result of more children of all ages and even parents getting in on the act, hearing about healthy lifestyle messages that could prevent illness and cancer in later life. Aimed at much younger children and deliv-ered by the highly qualified Health Action team, a newly designed puppet show was launched in 2011, heralding the arrival of two brightly coloured puppets called Mambo and Jazz. These ‘Health Action Heroes’ help nursery and young children learn about four golden rules to keep healthy; eat well, exer-cise regularly, be safe in the sun and be aware of the dangers of smoking.

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Parents of nursery children can also learn about how to make up healthy lunch boxes for their children, with older children and college students learning about the main healthy lifestyle messages in an age appropri-ate way, involving among others educational DVDs, food talks demonstrating the sugar contained in everyday items, and even a Box-ercise class!Emily Magrath, Health Promotion Manager at Action Cancer said, “We know that a healthy lifestyle and good health education early on in life can have a huge impact on helping prevent the development of cancer in later years, and it is through the Health Action pro-gramme that we aim to continuously get the messages to children of all ages and to par-ents. Our new puppet show has been a huge success so far, with Mambo and Jazz letting younger children know in a fun and interac-tive way about causes of poor health. To get your nursery, school, college or youth group involved in the Health Action programme, or to book the puppet show, contact Action Cancer on 028 90803344.

nations there are in Derry the better the chance of a national winner. ” Each Hughes Insurance branch winner will win a trophy, £200 for themselves plus £500 for the team, club or group. All 12 will then go forward to the Northern Ireland fi-nals and the chance to win big.

To nominate a volunteer from your community for the award, please visit your local Hughes Insurance branch for an entry form or find us on the web at www.HughesSportsVolunteers.com. The deadline for nominations is June 3 2012.

Pharmacy finds diabetes risk in DerryA recent drive to identify people at risk of Type 2 diabetes has resulted in 14 people in the city being referred to their GP.Diabetes UK Northern Ireland and MediCare Pharmacy Group worked in partnership during December and January to calculate a person’s risk of getting Type 2 diabetes within ten years. Using a diabetes risk as-sessment tool a Pharmacist categorised the risk from low (one in 20) to increased (one in 10), moderate (one in 7) and finally high risk (one in 3). If people were identified as moderate or high risk, it was suggested a referral letter be sent to their GP for follow-up information or to suggest that they be tested for Type 2 dia-betes. Advice was also given on what people could do to reduce their risk.Iain Foster, Director of Diabetes UK Northern Ireland, said: “We are delighted with the suc-cess of the MediCare partnership and the number of people who have been made aware of the risk factors for Type 2 diabetes. With vague symptoms it can take up to ten years before someone with Type 2 diabe-tes is diagnosed and, by that stage, 50% of people will already show signs of complica-tions. With a high number of GP referrals it is possible that MediCare staff have identified people with the condition and helped to get them the treatment they need so they can prevent these serious complications.”

The MediCare Pharmacy in Drumahoe car-ried out 51 risk assessments and nine peo-ple were subsequently referred to their GP while the Pharmacy in Racecourse assessed 12 people with five referred to their GP. In total, across Northern Ireland, 711 risk as-sessments were carried out in 18 MediCare Pharmacies and 187 people were referred to their GP. Dr Deirdre McAree, Professional Servic-es Manager for the MediCare Pharmacy Group, said: “Pharmacists are in an ideal po-sition to offer advice on improving health and taking action to reduce risk of devel-oping serious conditions such as diabetes. Our collaboration with Diabetes UK North-ern Ireland has shown what can be deliv-ered by local community pharmacists, and I am delighted that 711 MediCare patients took the opportunity to avail of our advice and expertise.”Symptoms of diabetes include increased thirst, passing urine frequently, extreme tiredness, weight loss and blurred vision. Anyone experiencing symptoms who think they may have diabetes should visit their GP as soon as they can. If diabetes is not managed effectively and the blood glu-cose levels do not stay as close to normal as possible, it can lead to long-term compli-cations such as heart disease, stroke, blind-ness, kidney failure and amputation.

SDLP councillor Sean Carr has called on Derry City Council to find an alternative venue for the body’s monthly meetings as he told his colleagues that there was difficulty in hearing proceedings due to the sound quality in the great hall on the Magee Campus of the Uni-versity of Ulster.“Are we tied into this venue,” asked the coun-

cillor. “The sound quality isn’t great in here is it?” he said.The monthly meetings have been held at Ma-gee since the beginning of the yea r due to the closure of the Guildhall for refurbishments.The meetings are expected to return to the Guildhall next spring when work has been completed.

Councillor calls for venue change

Siblings Kaci (5), Curtis (10) and Demi Lee (8) Hurley who have all taken part in Action Cancer’s Health Action programme over the years, meet Emily Magrath, Action Cancer, left, and Jennifer Morton from

project sponsor Centra, along with the charity’s health promotion puppets Mambo and Jazz. Very young nursery children right up to college students can now take part in the Health Action programme, which

has already reached more than 420,000 children in Northern Ireland since 2003. And this number is set to rise as a result of more children of all ages and even parents getting in on the act, hearing about healthy lifestyle messages that could prevent illness and cancer in later life. Picture: Brian Thompson/Press Eye.

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Riviera Xpress – new tanning salon now open

The good news is that Riviera offer a walk in service so appoint-ments aren’t necessary and there is even better news in that the salon is open seven days a week.Salon owner Blaine Tierney said that he was delighted at the new salon and in being able to provide new jobs in a difficult economic climate.“This is a modern, fresh salon for both men and women,” said Blaine. “It’s great to be able to create jobs and the salon really does have the most advanced tanning equipment.

“I would like to say a genuine thanks to all our loyal customers who have helped us to build the business over the years and I would also like to thank all the local traders who have support-ed us.” Riviera Tan X-press has also a huge range of tanning creams and oils which can be purchased at his salon. Riviera Tan X-press will be open seven days a week.

Well-known Derry com-pany Riviera Express has expanded again and has opened a bright new salon equipped with the best and latest in tanning equip-ment.

Opening times Monday to Friday from 11am to 9pm

Saturday from 11am to 7pmSunday from 1pm to 5pm

Blaine Tierney (riviera express ) receiving clothing vouchers from Barry Conaghan (chocolate clothing )

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Investing in Health Journalism Awards

Drink Think Journalism joint winner Conor Burns Christopher McKeever, Aidan Campbell &Simon McFadden

Eimear Canning Brendan McCallion

Journalism students Michael McCloskey, Rebecca Austin, Gemma McFaul & Paul Murray Anna McCloskey of the Western Trust & Julie Moore

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IFM overall winner Angela Davison (Journalism) Richard Hamilton

Thomas Caldwell Christopher McKeever

Award Winners Charlie Doherty & Kieron McCormick

Media and journalism students from the North West Regional College showed that they will be a force to be reckoned with after they scooped top pizes at the recent In-vesting for Health awards held at the Great Hall in Magee.

Naomi Kehoe

The prestigious awards provide a platform for rewarding the hard work of media and journalism students from both the NWRC and the University of Ulster.Speaking to the audience Brendan Bonner, head of Health Improvement at the Public Health Agency (PHA) said that since the public receives a vast amount of health in-formation via the media, it is essential that messages are clear, accurate and fair.“The media’s role in relation to public health is a critically important one,” he said. “We have seen how the media can play an im-

portant role in highlighting issues such as those in the A&E department in Belfast re-cently.“But reports need to be balanced,” added Mr Bonner. “We need to work in partner-ship with the media so that we can begin to move away from sensationalist headlines. It’s important to work with students now because of the role they will play within the media in the future.“We want the media to take the public health message seriously and use their skills and ex-pertise to get that message to the public.

“I want to thank everyone who took the time and effort to enter for these awards which were designed with the purpose of encouraging up and coming media profes-sionals to look at a balanced approach to the issues which surround health in society.“This is the seventh year of the awards and the entries have improved year on year and this time we have seen an exception-ally high standard of work. This work will be used in health promotion, it has a real value and will be used in as many ways as pos-sible,” he said.

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It’s been a long haul but Belfray owners John Edgar and Brian Loughlin have had their hard work rewarded and have been given four star status as the hotel and res-taurant rolls into a fourth successful year under their ownership.The pair have taken the hotel and re-vamped it- literally from the wiring and plumbing out and have transformed it into a chic and modern haven- its well-deserved success shown in the constantly booked out bistro and restaurant.And, as the hotel approaches wedding season, the Belfray has never been busier.Co-owner John Edgar attributes the Bel-fray’s success and the award of four start status to a long standing love of the hos-pitality industry combined with an excel-lent set of staff which has been with them “since day one”.Brian and John have worked in the indus-try for over 25 years and after running suc-cessful enterprises in Majorca and Jersey, decided four years ago that they wanted to come home to their native Derry.“We just thought that it was time to do it and we knew that the business had be-

Belfray Gets 4 Star Awardcome pretty run down but we have always liked a challenge,” laughed John.“When we took over we called a staff meeting and said to everyone- look we know things aren’t the best at the moment but we promise you that one day soon we will be four star and we could see every-one looking at one another and that they were thinking that there was no chance of that happening- but we did it!“We have done everything literally from the wiring out. We had to put in a new kitchen, re do all the bedrooms and the bistro and restaurant. It was a real chal-lenge to get the big ballroom done for the first Christmas we had the place but we managed that and that was a milestone in itself.“We have always agreed that if you of-fer high quality surroundings along with good food and good staff then people will come and with the Belfray we’ve found that to be more than true.“We have a great relationship with the staff and that’s because we lead by exam-ple. Because we have both worked in the industry we know about every aspect of it

from bottom to top. In fact Brian was the head waiter at the Inn at the Cross before he left Derry.“We’re also very into entertaining our guests and our dancers and cabaret have

proved to be a real draw.“At the minute we are facing into wedding season and we are busier than ever- al-most booked out in fact. The four star sta-tus has come at just the right time.”

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Derry has had its fill of imitation American steakhouses over the years, but anyone who has eaten in one Stateside will know that the genuine article rests on four prin-ciples – quality, flavour, freshness and an inventive and varied menu.Add some great atmosphere and great ser-vice to this and you’ll encounter something that the city has not had in some time: a steakhouse where the steak tastes real, the ambience is genuine and dining is a plea-sure.Our meals were great – after a starter con-sisting of the freshest buffalo wings I’ve ever had, I moved on to a T-bone steak with rosemary fries. My partner had Steak ‘n’ Ribs with garlic and sea-salt fries and our daugh-ter had chicken goujons and chips from the children’s menu. The starter was simple, but this is exactly where Cheers succeeds – the wings were cooked to perfection, and tasted fresh, light and full of natural flavour. The barbecue sauces that came with them were home-made, and complemented the

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wings nicely.My T-bone was done to perfection. It’s dif-ficult to keep a well-done steak moist and tender, but the chef hit the mark. The Steak ‘n’ Ribs looks like the kind of dining chal-lenge that only Homer Simpson could live up to, but the ribs were so tender that eat-ing them wasn’t a task at all. The steak that came with them was rare and this cut was also done to perfection. Bloody and suc-culent, yet nicely sealed, it tasted, by all accounts, first class, and it all went down very well with garlic and herb sauce. The side orders also included tobacco onions and seasonal vegetables, while the garlic-dusted fries were delicious. Meanwhile, the chicken goujons were perfect for the chil-dren’s menu – light and tasty. In the end, the adults could only manage to share a desert and we opted for the chocolate brownie. This came with a super-light vanilla ice cream, and the combination was delicious.Everything that we had on our plates was fresh – all of our mains courses were meat-

intensive, but the mealsweren’t too heavy or stodgy.The food served up at Cheers is first class, and a refreshing addition to the Derry restaurant scene. The overall dining experience also deserves a mention, because the restaurant itself is a great place to eat in – the bright décor, including exposed white brickwork, adds to the atmosphere and heightens the overall impression of Americana. And if this isn’t enough, you can watch an episode of the American sitcom on the twin screens.Cheers has added a nice twist to its menu by offering brunch and if steak really isn’t your thing, you can chose from a platter of mussels, a tasty bowl of chowder or some fresh fish.Added to all of this is a genuinely first class staff that couldn’t do enough to make sure we had everything we needed.We overhead one diner saying; “the service was really great but the food was even bet-ter”. I couldn’t agree more.

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The shelves are awash with magazines with all the latest looks and trends and let’s be honest most of those wouldn’t suit an aver-age size 14 or even a size 10 for that matter. Its good to experiment with heavy brows or a rockabilly roll but there are some timeless rules that will make sure you never look un-comfortable which is the real key to a sense of personal style. There is no herd to follow. There are no rules. There are no seasons.If we think of style icons- Audrey Hepburn, Jackie O and latterly the fabulous Kate Moss- a size 8 figure isn’t all they have their style comes from within because they know who they are. All this sounds great in theory, but finding your own style can be a daunting prospect.But there are some very simple things that will help you on the journey to creating your own style:

How many items in your wardrobe do you actually wear?How many of those make you feel good about yourself? And how many times have you looked in that wardrobe and said: "I have nothing to wear!"?Your wardrobe should contain only GOOD choices - it is much easier to be inspired when you see five great pieces than when you see 25 pieces and 20 of those are unre-markable.Pick key items and get rid of the rest, even if it is the "must-have" item of the season, or you spent a week's salary on it in 1999, or you wore it every day of your teenage years and "can't bear to part with it". If it doesn't look good on you now, it shouldn't be there. Start by throwing out anything you no longer wear or that doesn't look good on you. Be ruthless. It's easier said than done, so make yourself a deal: for every 20 items you chuck, you can buy one killer piece.

When you're buying, buy the right sizeDon't buy a smaller one because you're plan-ning on losing weight, or because you don't like the idea that you're a size 16.

And be wary of bargains: Paying £100 for a pair of jeans that cost £200 is a great deal. But if you are never going to wear them, don't need them, or don't even particularly like them, that's a very expensive deal.

Steer clear of trends:If everyone is wear-ing bright yellow mini-dresses but you don't look good in yellow or minidresses, why buy one? Wear what suits you and what makes you comfortable. Comfortable doesn't have to mean boring. Don't play it too safe. You should wake up in the morning and be in-spired by what is in your wardrobe: 20 black skirts tend to offer little inspiration; one

Style yourself fabulouswhite beaded vintage skirt offers a lot.Now you've cleared out your wardrobe, it's time to invest in the bare bones, if you don't own them already.These are essential staples that go with al-most anything and never go out of style - a blank canvas that you can layer on to.

The Little Black Dress: Popularised by Coco Chanel, this is the ultimate blank canvas. Slimming and flattering, it's simple enough to make you look effortlessly stylish, yet so-phisticated enough to make you look end-lessly elegant.

A Classic White Shirt: It has a crisp simplic-ity that makes it practical and unpretentious. Jackie Onassis paired hers with jeans, Uma Thurman went for black trousers, and Au-drey Hepburn teamed hers with a long skirt.

A Trench Coat: Not just for rainy days, a trench goes with almost anything. Best of all, it makes you instantly mysterious. Wear with big sunglasses to really channel your inner spy.

Denim: Jeans are the most versatile item. Simple and practical, sexy and perfect, rebel-lious and elegant, they can dress anything down and make even the most uptight items look relaxed.

A Man's Watch: Women's watches tend to change according to trends, but a classic man's watch is timeless and looks great on a woman's wrist. It makes a statement and breaks the rules in an unexpected but subtle way.

Diamonds: You can't go wrong here. Per-fect for day or night, casual or dressy, winter or summer, with other jewels, or not. Fake is fine.

Ballet Flats: For driving, mad dashes for flights, the first day of the sales, or any occa-sion when you have to give your heels the boot in the name of practicality.

A High-Heeled Pump: Sometimes you want outrageous, impractical, bold shoes. But sometimes, a reliable classic black high-heeled pump that won't clash with your dress, or prospective in-laws, is what's re-quired.

A Great Bag (or four): Statement bags are great, but you also need the classics: a tote or shoulder bag for day and carrying almost everything; a clutch for night and carrying around almost nothing; a medium-sized handbag, with a chain-link strap, for those times in between.

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Girl’s Aloud stars have dismissed rumours that the band is to reform next year without Derry song-stress Nadine Coyle.The long-awaited Girls Aloud reunion looks to be on after band member Nicola tweeted a picture of herself with Cheryl Cole, Sarah Harding and Kimberley Walsh in front of a mirror, with the caption: ‘Girls night in.. x.’ Cole later re-tweeted the snap and wrote: ‘Love my girlies.’ The girls’ reunion has been pencilled in for next year, which marks their ten-year anniversary, Nicola told Star magazine that while she is enjoying life as a solo artist, Girls Aloud will reform and they are not ignoring Irish band-mate Nadine.“All the stuff about us not speak-ing to Nadine is b*******” she said. Nicola’s comments come after

Kimberley said the girls were gearing up for a return in 2012.She said: “We definitely do want to do something. We will defi-nitely re-group. “I don’t think that will be the end, though. I don’t think we will ever break-up. Girls last forever.”Nadine has always played down rumours of a rift between herself and the rest of the girls and con-firmed to internet radio show host Dean Kelly last week that she is still in contact with the band. She said: “We always discuss do-ing a ten-year reunion thing. So that’s going to be next year.” “We’re definitely going to do something. But it’s a whole huge production. Girls Aloud is not just us five, there’s like us five plus a ridiculous team of 50 who travel with us, it’s amazing.” Nadine is currently living in New York where she bases her solo career.

A man has died following a Cus-toms and Excise raid in Derry, police have said.Officers from HM Revenue and Customs, along with the PSNI, carried out a search at a busi-ness premises in the Waterside area and seized cigarettes, 3kg of tobacco and a vehicle.Shortly after the raid, the PSNI

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Summer is a great time for relaxation, recre-ation and renewal. If you're like most of us, you probably take advantage of the longer days and warm weather to enjoy extra time with family and friends. While enjoying the hot, lazy days of summer, keep in mind that different beauty rules apply. Here are a few tips to keep you looking as good as you feel:Summer Hair Care* If you spend lots of time outdoors and want to spice up your look naturally, try combing a little lemon juice through your hair. The sun will lighten those strands faster than your locks sans lemon, giving you an attrac-tive sun-streaked look. It's also easier on your budget than salon highlights.* Be sure to deep condition your hair at least once a week, especially if you swim a lot. Hair tends to become dry, dull and brittle if it is soaked and dried too often.* If you like to swim lengths, try spritzing on some leave-in conditioner under your swim cap to help ward off damage from chlorine and salt water.Summer Skincare Tips* It may be hip to be tanned, and it does tend to camouflage a multitude of imper-fections, but don't deep-fry your skin for the

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brushing on a light shimmering powder instead of a heavy foundation. You don't want to appear like you are melting under the hot sun.* Those of you who read my column know that I'm a big advocate of the powder bronzer. This is a great way to give yourself a pretty glow. Use a matte finish on the face and then a shimmer powder on eye-lids, above cheekbones, and on shoulders and collarbone.* A hot look on a bronzed face is shiny lip gloss. The BEST is "Lip Glass" by MAC. It gives you ultra shine over lipstick (applied with a brush) or on its own. Plus, it stays put - a big bonus for die-hard lip gloss wearers!* Try a light shimmering eye shadow in beige just under your brow bone to draw attention to your eyes.* If you are wear mascara, try a waterproof. This way you will avoid "Raccoon Eyes" when you are perspiring or near water. Don't forget the must-have partner, eye make-up remover, or else you really will end up with the dreaded dark circles!But the number one beauty booster tip is simple: relax…and summer is the perfect time to do it. Take time to sit back, relax and enjoy time with your friends and family.

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April EventsFeis Doire Cholmcille at The Millennium Forum 09 Apr - 13 April Web: www.millenniumforum.co.ukThe North West's largest celebation of Irish musical cul-ture. The Feis will celebrate Irish language, verse and drama, as well as the famous Irish Dancing competition and vocal choirs.Opening times: Early til Late. Prices: Tickets at DoorWalled City Sessions Live at The Playhouse 14 April5-7 Artillery Street Derry Londonderry. Tel: (028) 71 268027. Web: www.derryplayhouse.co.ukFor the first time the Walled City Sessions is going live with a night of fantastic music from the best local tal-ent the City of Culture has to offer! Originally a podcast series interviewing local artists and showcasing their musical skills, Sherlock Studios is pleased to announce the first ever live recording acoustic session! We want you to come along, enjoy the music, get the craic going and be part of the recording!Celtic media festival 18-20 AprilFeaturing Conor McAteer (Sounds Like Summer Winner 2011), the sublime Betty Harrigan and the fantastic An-drew Orr, plus a few special guests - this is a chance to hear and support local artists and be part of a podcast that will be made available world-wide after the event on iTunes!Opening times: 8pm. Prices: £8Contact Details 5-7 Artillery Street Derry Londonderry Tel: (028) 71 268027. Web: www.derryplayhouse.co.ukThe Celtic Media Festival's aim is to promote the lan-guages and cultures of the Celtic countries on screen and in broadcasting. Its primary activity is organising the Celtic Media Festival. The Celtic Media Festival is supported by broadcast, film, cultural and economic development organisations throughout the Celtic countries. The Festival is an annual three-day celebra-tion of broadcasting, film talent and excellence from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Cornwall, Brittany and the Isle of Man.Location Description: The PlayhouseRobbie Williams & Take That Tribute Night20 AprilTel: (028) 7134 5500 . Email: [email protected] Web: www.waterfoothotel.comWith overnight stay B&B £65 personDate Info: 20th April. Opening times: Arrival 7:30pm Meal 8pm Concert 10pm. Prices: £32.50 per personBlood Brothers back at the Forum 16-21 AprilContact Details: Newmarket Street Derry Tel: (028) 71 26 4455 Web: www.millenniumforum.co.ukWritten by Willy Russell, the legendary BLOOD BROTH-ERS tells the captivating and moving tale of twins who, separated at birth, grow up on opposite sides of the tracks, only to meet again with tragic consequenc-es. The superb score includes Bright New Day, Mari-lyn Monroe and the emotionally charged hit Tell Me It’s Not True. Few musicals have received quite such acclaim as the multi-award winning BLOOD BROTH-ERS, and Bill Kenwright’s production, having recently celebrated its 23rd phenomenal year in London, con-tinues to enjoy standing ovations at every devastating performance. No wonder BLOOD BROTHERS is now ‘The musical for all time’.Location Description: The Millennium ForumOpening times: Time: Mon-Fri 8pm, Sat 3pm & 8pmPrices: Opening Night Offer - £10.00, £11.50, £17.50, £19.50, £22.50 concessions available Tues-Thurs: £10.00, £14.50, £23.50, £26.00, £28.50 concessions available Fri (8pm) & Sat (all shows): £12.50, £17.50, £25.00, £28.50, £32.50

Bill Kenwright presents one of the best loved and longest running musicals in theatrical history, as Andrew Lloyd Web-ber’s sensational Starlight Express ex-plodes back onto the stage with a new production set to take the UK by electri-fying storm.Starlight Express will put on its skates and race to the Millennium Forum for a 2 week run from Tuesday 29th January 2013 for its only Irish dates on the new tour.Starlight Express opened to packed houses at the Apollo Victoria in London’s West End in 1984 where it ran for over 7000 performances. It is one of the most successful musicals ever with the Ger-man production still running in Bochum after 25 years.Light years ahead of the rest, this fu-turistic tale about love and hope in the face of adversity promises to take you on the ride of a lifetime – with two hours of speed, spectacle, energy, daredevil stunts and turbo charged excitement, combined with an electrifying sound track, dazzling sets and costumes, ex-traordinary roller-choreography and some of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s most memorable musical hits.Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote Starlight Express originally for his own children. His extensive credits include The Phan-tom of the Opera, Joseph and the Amaz-ing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita and Cats. He pioneered television casting for musical theatre with the Emmy Award-winning BBC se-ries How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? His awards include seven Tonys, three Grammys including Best Contem-porary Classical Composition for Re-quiem, seven Oliviers, a Golden Globe,

THE RACE IS ON!AS THE FASTEST SHOW ON EARTH STOPS AT THE FORUM!

an Oscar, two International Emmys, the Praemium Imperiale, the Richard Rodg-ers Award for Excellence in Musical The-atre and the Kennedy Center Honor. He currently owns seven London theatres, including the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and the London Palladium.Internationally renowned choreogra-pher and popular television judge Arlene Phillips is back on board as Director and Choreographer. Arlene choreographed the original West End production and di-rected and choreographed several sub-sequent productions of the show. Her extensive credits also include The Wizard of Oz, Saturday Night Fever, The Sound of Music, Grease, We Will Rock You and Jesus Christ Superstar.Getting their skates back on for the UK Tour will be Mykal Rand, who joined the cast of Starlight Express in 1987 and has since performed in over six different pro-ductions of the show spanning an incred-ible eighteen years. As well as playing the role of Electra, Mykal is also Associ-ate Director/Choreographer and Resi-dent Director for the tour. Joining him on

stage will be Kristofer Harding as Rusty (Starlight Express 2007 UK Tour), Jamie Capewell as Greaseball (Starlight Express; West End, UK Tour & Buchum) Lothair Ea-ton as Poppa (Starlight Express Las Vegas, Bochum and New Zealand totaling over 2,500 performances to date), Amanda Coutts as Pearl (Starlight Express, Bo-chum) and Ruthie Stephens as Dinah (Starlight Express UK Tour 2004 – 2008).The cast for Starlight Express also in-cludes Kelsie Cobban, Camilla Hardy, Robert Nurse, Lex Milczarek, Glenn Robb, Stuart Armfield, Gavin Ashbarry, James Marshall, Nick Bower, Kris Man-uel, Andy Barke, Tristan Adams, Matt King, Adam Illsley, Lisa Dahmane, Louise Lenihan, Sarah Riches, Aaron Piper, Dar-ryl Paul Saunders, Tony Andrade, Kerry Stammers and Samantha Foker.Buckle up; the race is truly back on!STARLIGHT EXPRESS stops at the Mil-lennium Forum from Tues 29th Janu-ary to Sat 9th February 2013. Tickets are now available from the Box Office. Telephone 71 264455 or visit www.millenniumforum.co.uk for bookings.

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Page 59ENTERTAINMENTThe Last Mile to Manchester and The Atheist24 Apr - 25 AprilWeb: www.derryplayhouse.co.uk"A special two hander of plays from resident theatre company at The Playhouse and leading Northern Irish theatre company for adults with learning difficulties, Lilliput Theatre Company". Manchester 1 mile- An Alfred Hitchcock suspence play where passengers on a train journey are not all you might think they are. The Atheist follows the somewhat unusual journey of Paul McGarton from Derry on his passage to heaven.Date Info: Matinee 24th of April at 11am. Location Description: The Playhouse.Opening times: 8pm. Prices: £5

Bringing Jazz to the peopleThe City of Derry Jazz and Big Band Festi-val is set to return for its 11th installment in 2012 and this year brings with it another exceptional year in terms of international jazz and blues and showcasing local and up and coming talent. The event officially marks the start of the summer making it the perfect location for music lovers every-where to visit for an activity filled May Bank Holiday weekend. This year’s event will take place on the May 3-7 and will mark the start of a series of celebratory events for the city of Derry as it prepares to be the first UK City of Culture in 2013.This year’s festival will attract some of the biggest names in the jazz industry includ-ing international performer Van Morrison, and festival favourite, the soulful Ruby Turner, who is one of many jazz legends

An Audience with Sherlock Holmes at The Waterside Theatre28 AprilContact Details: Glendermott Road Derry Tel: (028) 71 314000 Web: www.watersidetheatre.comAs night draws in and fog settles once more over the city of London, join Sherlock Holmes in the study of 221B Baker Street for a classic retelling of some of his most celebrated cases. Andrew Meller dons the famous cape and deerstalker and with pipe in hand recounts some of the cases that made Holmes the world's most famous detective. In this captivating portrayal, Andrew assumes the guise of numerous Sherlockian characters to cre-ate a truly memorable eveningLocation Description: The Waterside Theatre. Opening times: 8pm. Prices: £10

swinging into town to be part of the week-end of musical celebration. Other events taking place as part of the festival include the Guinness Jazz Trail, an open air mar-ket, outdoor gigs and performances and a range of fringe events for all the family.The festival is a firm favourite on the local music scene and is successfully making a name for itself across Northern Ireland and beyond as it grows in stature and attracts audiences from across the country to ex-perience up and coming jazz talent, inter-national artists and local performers. Since its inception the festival has steadily broad-ened its scope to include jive, swing, boo-gie, dance, rhythm and blues in addition to traditional and more mainstream type jazz. The festival is a true reflection of the cutting edge of musical talent in the city and offers

the perfect opportunity for visitors to expe-rience at first hand the city’s reputation as a young, vibrant city on the cusp of new op-portunities and celebration.The festival is synonymous with getting everyone involved and creating a real buzz and energy across the city. It has a broad appeal, attracting audiences from all ages and musical tastes with a strong family friendly focus and the ability to get the city to its feet with a scorching blend of musical sounds. Don’t take our advice however, why not come and see for yourself? There’s no excuse, all you have to do is take advan-tage of the Bank Holiday weekend and indulge in a selection of the finest music performances and weekend break of-fers in the capital city of festivals.

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Page 67SPORTDaniel ‘Pinta’ Quigley celebrates his world

title victory with Martin Rogan

Paddy’s heroesIt was kicking boxing coach Paddy Toland’s night for sure last Saturday at St Columb’s Hall when four of his protégées were crowned champions.Daniel ‘Pinta’ Quigley, joined stablemates Aid-an “Lights Outs” Lafferty, Natalie “The Blade” McCarron and Damien McGuinness as Derry heroes of the evening.The top form of all Paddy’s fighters was cred-ited to the man himself who gives all of his

fighters the mental edge needed to win, ac-cording to Aidan Lafferty who lifted the ISKA Super-Welter weight title.“Paddy works with both mind and body and tells us that your body can do anything you want it to,” said Aidan. “Your body will give up long before your mind will.”Aidan, who has been training with Paddy for the last eight years manages to find time to hold down a full-time job as a fitness instructor

as well as training twice a day- six days week.“I have no life and that’s why,” laughed Aidan. “Honestly though it’s all worth it just for that amazing 10 second buzz when they tell you that you’ve won, there’s nothing like it. I’d like to thank Paddy and of course the lovely Tish Lafferty.”It’s a great night for Natalie McCarron who is on something of a golden run as she took her third title in the space of a year.

Natalie, who has also been training with Pad-dy for eight years, beat English fighter Andrea Warbrick to lift the ISKA World Flyweight title.The win makes Natalie the first ever female kick boxer to lift three different titles at three different weights.Carrigan’s girl Natalie has come a long way from training to tone up. “I’m taking a week off now and then I’ll see what Paddy has planned for us next,” she laughed.

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Natalie ‘The Blade‘ McCarron celebrates her victory in the ISKA world flyweight title fight

Natalie McCarron connects with Andree Warbrick

Dee McGuinness celebrates becoming the ISKAIrish amateur middleweight champion

Jose de la Llera and his coach prepare for battle with Pinta Quigley

Jim Ramsey connects with a low kick to his opponent in his K1 bout at St Columb’s Hall

Daniel ‘Pinta’ Quigley and Jose de la Llera Aidan Lafferty sends his opponent to the canvas

Aidan ‘Lights Out‘Lafferty celebrates his KO victory over Aaron Robinson

Page 69SPORTNorth West Saturday Morning LeagueThe race is now on for all three league titles in the Rathmor Pre MOT Centre Taxi/Co North West Saturday Morning League. The four semi finalists have also been named in the Blue Riband Cup with three Premiership teams and one Championship team will be contesting those semi finals as Brandywell Celtic, Drumahoe, Phoenix Swifts and West-bank United all won their prospective quar-ter finals ties. In the Premier Division West-bank United and Phoenix Swifts still lead the way as the are joint top of this division with both sitting on thirty four points but West-bank United have played a game less than their closest rivals and they sit in the box seat with that game in hand. The three teams that come next in the league title are all bat-tling it out for a Champions League finish but only two of these three sides will qualify for that competition. Clifton Villa are holding on to third spot at the minute as they have amassed twenty six points so far this sea-son but Creggan Swifts who occupy fourth spot at present are on the same amount of points as Villa but they have played a game less. Brandywell Celtic are currently in fifth place just two points behind both Villa and Creggan but Brandywell have two games in hand over Villa and one game in hand over Creggan Swifts. Clooney come next in the league table and they look to be safe from relegation this season but the four clubs that sit below them in the league table all have work to do if they are to avoid the drop this season. Only one club will be relegated from the top flight this season after Magee University withdrew from the league and anyone of the bottom four clubs could fall through the trapdoor in to the Champion-ship. Rosemount have fifteen points from

sixteen games played while Foyle Harps who have played the same number of games as Rosemount come next but they are one point behind Rosemount. Du Pont are currently sitting second from bottom with just eleven points from thirteen games but they are four points clear of the base-ment club who are Oxford United who have seven points from sixteen games played. Any one of the bottom four could go down in this division as things at the bottom are just as tight as things at the top.In the Championship Drumahoe currently lead the way as they have amassed thirty seven points from eighteen games played but Red Star are just one point behind them in second place and they have a game in hand and if they were to win that game in hand they would shjoot straight in to the top spot. Newton Heath are now back in third place and they are only two points behind the leaders but they have played twenty games and their quest for honours is now out of their hands and they need the two sides above them to self-implode as the season draws to a close if they are to have a chance of going back in to the Pre-mier Division. Tamnaherin Celtic are back in fourth spot but their interest in the title and even promotion ended a long time ago as they were the pacesetters in the league at the earlier part of the season but a sud-den slump in form when they returned from the Christmas break saw their inter-est wane. Rocking Chair come next and al-though they will be playing their football in the Championship next season a lot more was expected from the Waterloo Street based side as they promised so much but just failed to deliver when the crunch came

to the crunch. The three sides that sit be-low Rocking Chair are all in danger of been relegated this season as Northside Albion sit third from bottom of the table with just sixteen points from nineteen games played an immediately below them just one point adrift comes Sion Swifts who are on fifteen points but they have two games in hand over Northside Albion but they need to win those games in hand and its really hard to see where they next win is going to come from. The bottom side in this division is Foyle Athletic and they are in real danger of going down as they have only taken thir-teen points but on the negative side also is the fact that they have already played twenty games and it really looks like First Division football for them next season.In the First Division the title race is over by the looks of things as the leaders Gransha Institute are a massive twenty points clear at the top of the table but they can still be caught mathematically but that would mean them losing all their remaining games and the second placed side winning all their games and that just is not going to happen. The team in second place is Ben-bradagh Colts who have three games in hand over Gransha Institute but they are still twenty points adrift but they are look-ing very good to win promotion this season as they are one point better off than the third placed side but Benbradagh also has three games in hand over them. That third place side is Oakleaf Celtic who have had a magnificent season in this their first season in The SML and if they can manage to keep their side together there is no reason why they should or could not challenge next season. Collon Celtic come next and they

are another new side this season and they have done very well but time is running out for them making an impression this season as they have already played twenty one games. Strabane Athletic are another side that was new this season and they have made their mark but they have fallen short of challenging this season and they will be another side that will be worth watching next season as they look to have a progres-sive young side. HML come next and the Call Centre based side have done really well this season as they have had their best season since entering the league and they will be well pleased with what they have achieved this season. Top of the Hill Celtic Youth oc-cupy second last place which is surprising as they were well in the race for honours be-fore the league took their Christmas break but they struggled on their return to action and although they have shown a marked improvement in recent games the damage has already been done but you can guaran-tee they will be back looking for glory next season. The bottom club in this division is Collegians and what a team they are as ev-ery week they have fifteen players available for selection no matter what the weather is like and they are as keen as mustard but on the downside they have only managed to win once all season and lesser teams would have folded but not Collegians and if there was a spirit for sport award they would certainly have few challengers in that cat-egory. The City Council has not yet released their allocation for pitches so no fixtures are available at the time of going to press but The Match Secretary will be in touch with clubs on an individual basis until the alloca-tion has been released.

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INSTITUTE joint manager, Paul Carlyle may have conceded defeat in the club's chase for promotion to Irish football's top tier, but he expects his troops to end their league campaign on a high. The Drumahoe club's hopes of acheiving that promotion play-off spot were dealt a fatal blow last Saturday as HW Welders left Riverside Stadium with a richly de-served victory.Carlyle had lambasted his players in his post-match interview for their fail-ure to compete against the East Belfast men, stressing that the club had only themselves to blame for their failure to achieve Premier League status. Second placed Newry City also suc-cumbed to a 1-0 defeat at Limavady United which made it all that more dif-ficult to take for the 'Stute management. And with just four games remaining - the first of which is away to Loughgall on Easter Saturday - Caryle has challenged his players to finish as high up the Cham-pionship One table as possible. "I would say any hopes of promotion are gone now with four matches left," said Caryle. "We shot ourselves in the foot and have nobody to blame but ourselves."We just didn't show up against Welders and some people have to question them-selves. One or two of them got hit early on and then went missing for the rest of the game and it sort of went through ev-eryone else and apart from one or two, no one came out with any credit."We've always wanted to finish the sea-son on a high and we've done well in cups this season but we want to be do-ing well in everything." Institute made the worst possible start to the Cham-pionship campaign with three straight defeats in the league (against Bangor, Newry and Dergview) and they were immediately chasing nine points which

Carlyle anxious to finish season on a highStute hoping to return to winning ways at Loughgall

Carlyle felt didn't help with confidence. However, the 'Stute boss refused to apologise for the club's current posi-tion in the league table, stressing that it was always the intention to build a new, young team at the Riverside which will take time. "Probably the first three games of the season let us down as we were chasing nine points after that start but we don't apologise for where we are. We're build-ing a new team. "We have a lot of inexperienced players and we have some expereinced players too and they'll all learn from this experi-ence. They were more than capable abil-ity-wise but sometimes you need a bit of luck throughout the season. "There's no point going into the dress-ing room and ranting and raving at them because people start switching off," he added. The Waterside men go into Saturday's league clash with Loughgall, one point ahead of their opponents and Carlyle will be anxious to cement their fourth place spot and put some breathing space between the two clubs with a much needed victory. "We want to finish the season on a high and hopefully we can win our remaining four matches in the league." Striker, Stephen Parkhouse is expected to return to the starting line-up hav-ing missed last weekend's defeat to HW Welders but Carlyle suggested that won't be the only change on the team sheet. "Young Aaron McEneff is back this week-end from Spurs and he'll come in to the frame," he added. "Stephen Parkhouse has a chance for coming in too so if people think they're going to come in to the dressing room and lift a jersey then they've another thing coming."

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DERRY CITY captain, Kevin Deery is hoping to make the most of Barry Molloy's absence on Friday night as the midfielder targets his first start of the season against UCD at Brandywell Stadium. The highly influential Molloy has been depu-tising as the club's skipper during the open-ing four Airtricity Premier League games but his sending off in the 2-0 defeat to Drogheda last weekend rules him out of the clash with the Dubliners. However, his suspension presents a window of opportunity for Deery who is available to start his first match of the season having fully recovered from a knee injury sustained in pre-season. Admittedly, the Creggan man revealed he hasn't reached peak fitness just yet but he's willing to make the most of his chance should it come earlier than expected on Friday night. "I'm feeling good," he said. "I only came on for 20 minutes and I was in the middle. I was chasing the game a bit when Barry (Molloy) got sent off but it'll take me a few games to get fit and everything's ok injury-wise."I'll train hard this week and with Barry sus-pended it might open the door that bit quicker for me and I might get a start on Fri-day. But it's not about any individual and I'm sure whatever teams right for UCD Declan will select it."We're a bit better off than what we were at this stage last year so it's not all bad. It's a dif-ficult venue but we're up-beat this week and ready to train hard." What should have been an enjoyable experi-ence for Deery last weekend, when making his first appearance as a second half substi-tute against Drogheda, ended up becoming one of his worst experiences in a candys-triped shirt. Entering the fray with 20 minutes to go, Deery found himself chasing shadows after Molloy was given his marching orders and teh team facing a 1-0 deficit. Having led a post-match autopsy during the warm-down at Hunky Dorys Park as the play-

Deery ready to step into the breach against Dubliners

ers attempted to get to the bottom of the poor performance, Deery said his teammates were hurt by the result. In fact, Deery drew comparisons with last sea-son's defeat to Wexford Youths which saw the 'Candy Stripes' crash out of the FAI Cup but he has already witnessed a dramatic improve-ment during training sessions this week. "It was definitely one of the worst perfor-mances I've seen in a long time," said Deery. "And the manner in which we lost that game will be a wake-up call for us all. We've got to work hard this week in training to put things right. We did a good session on Sunday and we trained well on Monday. "We had a chat after the match on Friday and basically told each other we needed to apply ourselves a bit better. We weren't great but we're good enough to respond."The only thing you could put it down to is that they wanted to win the match more than

us and it showed. It wasn't through a lack of preparation, they just started the game better and played a way which we found difficult to cope with and we were too easy to play against and they got on top of us. "Things are sent to try you and we just have to lift ourselves and respond on Friday night against UCD. We can't keep dwelling on it. Ok we lost the game but we'll respond in the right way. "It's a big learning curve for everyone and sometimes it takes a bad defeat like that to find out what the players are really like, so I'm just hoping we can respond. I know we will because already there has been a bit of reac-tion the last two days in training."Deery refused to elaborate on that post-match exchange between the players but felt that it simply showed how much the players care about the team."No one was blaming any individual," he said.

"We had a warm-down together and had a chat about how we thought we could im-prove."We deserved a roasting and we got a roast-ing after the match that goes without saying once you have a performance like that."We know we have to improve in certain areas both on and off the pitch so we've got to get three points this week against UCD and once you get another win all the doom and gloom surrounding Friday's match will be gone."The Drogheda match is gone, there's noth-ing we can do now so there's no point dwell-ing on it. Everyone of the players involved were hurt after the game," he added. "If you weren't hurt by that performance then you shouldn't be playing. Sometimes you can't do anything about it when you're maybe a little unfortu-nate and lose but it hurts when you just don't perform. I hope this drives us on now."

"I'll train hard this week and with Barry suspended it might open the door that bit quicker for me and I might get a start on Friday. But it's not about any individual and I'm sure whatever teams right for UCD, Declan will select it.”Kevin Deery

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