Harry Duffy s children follow his coffin as it is carried from St Mary s Church, Creggan.
I have been trying for weeks to write something about the 40th anniversary of my father’s death, but I can’t. My anger is so real that it stops me,
writes Linda Duffy.
May is a hard month for our family. It comes every year and I feel like I’m holding my breath until it’s over.
My father Harry Duffy, known as Harry ‘Dundalk’, was killed by the British Army in the early hours of May 22, 1981. He was struck by a plastic bullet in the head. His death left me and my three brothers and three sisters as orphans. It shattered our lives.
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Of the few hundred people who ran into Lake George on Tuesday at Shepard Park beach, the two who sta Of the few hundred people who ran into Lake George on Tuesday at Shepard Park beach, the two who stayed in longest were brothers from Albany County, Brian and Bill Hart. Smoking or chewing on cigars, wearing old fashioned pilot’s and football helmets, they seemed blithely unconcerned about the temperature. “We take a lot of tequila,” said Bill, explaining their training regimen. Brian said eating helped, too, contributing to the middle-aged brothers’ considerable waistlines and powers of endurance.