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50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday

Victims of Bloody Sunday: Top row, left to right: Patrick "Paddy" Doherty, Gerald Donaghey, John "Jackie" Duddy, Hugh Gilmour, Michael Kelly, Michael McDaid, Kevin McElhinney. Bottom row, left to right: Bernard McGuigan, Gerard McKinney, William McKinney, William Nash, James Wray, John Young.

Many millions of words have been written about the events of Bloody Sunday in Derry, 50 years ago tomorrow.

The 10-volume, 5,143-page Saville Report, published in 2010, demolished the earlier whitewashing of events by the senior British judge Lord Widgery. Its cost was variously estimated at between €280m and €500m. More than 900 witnesses gave evidence over a period of five years.