Charlie McDermott was just a teenager when he arrived at the front door of the ornate Derry Journal offices on Shipquay Street to report for work on his first day back in 1944.
So we’re officially very old indeed! In fact, the Derry Journal is now the second oldest paper still in existence in Ireland and the oldest regional paper. But we might never have got here as the paper also carries the curious distiniction of being the only newspaper ever to be banned in the north and the south of Ireland post-Partition.