Bishop Edward Daly dies

Four days of mourning have begun at St Eugene’s Cathedral in Derry in honour of the city’s best-known bishop, Edward ‘Eddie’ Daly.

The lifelong peace and justice campaigner, recognised internationally as the priest waving the bloodied white handkerchief while trying to help an injured teenager on Bloody Sunday, passed away in hospital yesterday morning at the age of 82.

Dr Daly was among the civil rights campaigners who gathered for the march through Derry’s Bogside on January 30, 1972, and he risked his life to crawl over the bullet-strewn streets to tend to 17-year-old Jackie Duddy, who lay dying after being shot in the back.