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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Claire O'Boyle

Clergymen reflect on work still to be done 50 years after Bloody Sunday massacre

The image was one of the starkest and most harrowing ever captured during the Troubles.

A priest, his body crouched and his arms outstretched as he shielded a dying boy from gunshots, waved his blood-stained hanky as four frightened men moved him to safety.

Young boxer John ‘Jackie’ Duddy was just 17 years old when he joined a civil rights march “for the craic” that day. He became the first of 13 men and boys to be shot dead by British soldiers on Bloody Sunday, 50 years ago this weekend.

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