Video of the march that happened on the afternoon of Sunday 30th January 2022.

The Bloody Sunday March Committee is honoured to announce that given this is the 50th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday the rally will be addressed by both our own Eamonn McCann and Bernadette McAliskey and also this year’s guest speaker, Clare Daly.  Clare is an MEP for Dublin.

As ever Kate Nash, sister of William Nash murdered on the day and daughter of Alexander Nash who was wounded going to his aid, will chair the platform.

Speakers:

Photograph of Bernadette McAliskeyBernadette McAliskey (nee Devlin), was a prominent member of the civil rights movement at the time of Bloody Sunday and, as MP for Mid Ulster, was the youngest woman ever to be elected to the House of Commons.  On the 30th January 1972 she was on the platform in Derry, about to address the rally when 1-Para entered the Bogside and started shooting into the fleeing crowd.

Eamonn McCann: A native son of Derry, Eamonn is probably the foremost authority on Bloody Sunday.  He was a prominent figure in the civil rights moment and was on the ant-internment march on the 30th January 1972, running for his life with the rest of the crowd.

He wrote the first pamphlet on the killings, entitled, “What Happened In Derry”, which was published in February 1972.  And a few days after the British Government’s first Public Inquiry was released, his pamphlet, “The Widgery Whitewash” was in print.

Photograph of Clare DalyClare Daly: Clare is a long-standing socialist activist who has campaigned on behalf of the working-class communities of North Dublin for over two decades. She was instrumental during that time in exposing malpractice within the South’s Garda Siochana.  Clare was elected to the European parliament to represent the constituency of Dublin in 2019 with over 87,000 votes. She is a member of ‘Independents for Change’, which is part of the left-wing block of political parties at the parliament.

 

 

 


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