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Niall Deeney

Tributes to folk singer and Sandino's owner who founded Derry 'haven for socialists and Bohemians'

Tributes have been paid in Derry to the folk singer, political radical and Sandino’s bar founder Joe Mulheron, who has sadly died.

His bar, named after the Nicaraguan revolutionary hero Augusto Cesar Sandino, was described as a “haven for a mixture of a socialists and Bohemians” by Eamonn McCann in a poignant tribute to his friend of several decades.

Mr McCann, speaking to Belfast Live, said he had “known Joe since the days of People’s Democracy” in the late 1960s.

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