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The concept of a Hospice for the North West of Ireland was triggered off by local GP Dr Tom McGinley visiting an 18 year old man dying of terminal cancer. Dr Tom felt, not only his own inadequacy, but also that of the Health Service in general at being unable to provide the necessary care for this young man. This failure became a personal challenge which subsequently became the vision of a Hospice for the area. A small steering committee was set up in early 1984 and intense fund raising started in earnest.
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Fighting With Wire emerged from the ever creative Northern Ireland music scene in 2003, the brainchild of guitarist Cahir O’Doherty (Jetplane Landing / Clearshot) and drummer Craig McKean (Clearshot). An idealistic bunch, they’ve since done what rock bands are meant to do: they wrote a bunch of songs, and took to the road. They are confrontational, agitated and bitter, their full-on, riff driven songs a (successful) self proclaimed attack against a seething mass of generic and unoriginal rock and indie bands

Holy Family Primary School serves the wider community to the west of the city and includes a Nursery School.

Eamon Friel is from Derry in Northern Ireland. In the year 2000 he issued the album “Word of Spring”. It received a great deal of critical praise and substantial radio play particularly in Britain on programmes like BBC Radio 3’s “Late Junction”. Two of the songs were covered by Sean Tyrell and Bill Jones. “I was encouraged by its reception”, says Eamon. “So much so that I am writing the best songs of my life at the moment. I am a three song a year man if I’m lucky but I seem to have hit a purple patch of late”.

Cara Dillon and Paul Brady sing The Streets of Derry.
"This is legendary. Two voices that complement each other so well, and a great song."

Workplace counselling is both valuable and effective and can be provided on-site or within the privacy of my Practice location. Linda Cowen's approach is a Person-centred/Humanistic style of counselling which offers a non judgemental, respectful environment working to your agenda exploring issues you wish to discuss. I am there to support you and help clarify your thoughts and feelings with the aim of you deciding what is best for you. This will help you to regain perspective and reclaim back your life. I am a member of the British Association of Counselling Psychotherapy (BACP), bound by its code of ethics and Good Practice. I undertake rigorous supervision in accordance with its guidelines, hold a strict confidentiality policy and have full insurance for my Practice assuring a high standard of Professional Care.

Primary School located on the banks of the Foyle just south of the city centre. Our school is one of the oldest in the city but today we are fully equipped with modern technology, including a computer suite and interactive whiteboards in every class.

Paul Joseph Brady (born 19 May 1947, Strabane, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland) is an Irish singer-songwriter, whose work straddles folk and pop. He was into a wide variety of music from an early age. During his career he has passed through several major bands and on to a successful solo phase. Brady began performing as a hotel piano player in Donegal at the age of sixteen before becoming a guitarist, during the 1960s, in two rhythm and blues bands: Rockhouse and the Cult. There followed a stint with The Johnstons as a guitarist and singer that ended in 1974, and a shorter one with Planxty that saw Brady touring extensively but recording no albums. In 1976, Brady recorded an album with Andy Irvine that he now regards as his best. Welcome Here Kind Stranger, released in 1978 was the summation of his interest in Irish music and was followed in 1981 by Hard Station, Brady's engagement with commercial rock.

Seamus Justin Heaney (born 13 April 1939) is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. He currently lives in Dublin. Wee Seamus Heaney was born the eldest of nine children at the family farmhouse called Mossbawn, between Castledawson and Toomebridge, thirty miles to the north-west of Belfast, in Northern Ireland. When he was a young boy his family moved to Bellaghy, a few miles away, which is now the family home.He was educated initially at Anahorish Primary School nearby where he won a scholarship to St Columb's College, a boarding school in Derry. While studying at St Columb's his four-year-old brother Christopher was killed in a road accident, an event that he would later write about in two poems, "Mid-Term Break" and "The Blackbird of Glanmore".