Watched a programme tonight,
The Boys of St Columb's.
Derry people are tremendously gifted - they manage to combine an inflated sense of their own importance with a whingy tone in a way that no other people can quite achieve.
The closest competition maybe comes from Palestinians but at least they don't usually try to sing (apart from that ghastly concert during the Holy Father's visit to the Holy Land).
Bishop Edward Daly came across as nice.
Of course he was born in Donegal.
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