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EDWARD DALY, THE Catholic priest who famously waved a white flag while trying to aid the wounded on Bloody Sunday, has died.
The 82-year-old died this morning after a short battle with cancer.
Bishop Daly was probably best-known for his actions on the infamous day in Derry on 30 January 1972, when he waved a white handkerchief while trying to help wounded man Jackie Duddy to safety after he was gunned down by British paratroopers.
Fourteen people died and another 12 were injured at a Catholic civil rights march in the city in one of the most infamous incidents of the Northern Irish troubles.
A Fermanagh native, Bishop Daly waved the handkerchief towards the end of the day in a famous photograph in a desperate attempt to help the wounded to safety without fear of coming under fire in the Bogside.
Ordained in 1957, in the aftermath of Bloody Sunday, Bishop Daly served as Bishop of Derry from 1974 until 1993 when serious illness caused him to vacate his position.
“It is with deepest regret that I announce the death, this morning, of Bishop Edward Daly,” Donal McKeown, current Bishop of Derry, said this morning.
Bishop Daly provided an example of priestly ministry which was exemplary. His ministry was characterised by his deep love of the people of this diocese, his dedicated visitation of parishes and his constant availability to others.
Archbishop Eamon Martin described Bishop Daly as “an iconic figure in the civic and church life of Ireland, north and south”.
“As the bishop who ordained me to the priesthood in 1987, I had huge admiration for Bishop Edward,” Martin said.
(He) literally spent himself in the service of others. He had a sensitive heart and generous disposition – ever caring to the sick, the bereaved, and to victims on all sides of the Troubles.
The Bishop of Raphoe, Philip Boyce said the attention Bishop Edwards paid to the victims of the Troubles in Northern Ireland and for prisoners and their families, was remarkable.
Minister for Foreign Affairs Charlie Flanagan meanwhile described Daly as “first and foremost a man of peace” who was “respected on all sides”.
“He will be greatly missed by all who knew him, but particularly by the people of Derry,” the minister said. “In latter years, his work in the Foyle hospice was of great comfort to many. My condolences go to all of his family.”
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How much I know about the crown bypass multiple choice questions, stole our land, impoverished our people, kept our wealth. Night.
@herp: hear hear. Lets add genocide.
@herp: and they still haven’t given our country back
The Healy- Rae flat cap crown from the kingdom of Kerry,, ah yes power indeed… 5/10.
Did Dev pawn the Russian Crown Jewels or where they just resting in his wife’s bank vault?
@Paul Mc: They were on display in the Galway tent, Business men gave brown envelopes just to view them.
Yaaayyyy got them all wrong :)
@Paul Furey: a crowning achievement.
2 for effort. Back to the sauce boy
@herp: exactly, just watched the Mountbatten documentary, he was responsible for so many deaths but was branded a war hero.
@Ian James Burgess: fg troll above
@Ian James Burgess: what’s the documentary called ?
@Nigel Hayden: shower of cuxts
@Ian James Burgess: and a pedophile
How about the crown leaves and we claim back all ground rent rights/ownership in this country that is still owned and payed to dead English landlords over a majoraty of the whole island not even talking about the north….just saying.
The Etruscans did my crown much cheaper and I got a holiday too.
guessed them all, got 5, the whiskEy threw me off, i didnt check spelling
@michael macken: whiskey at this hour? Fair play
I know everything, because my wife won’t stop watching it. I think I will ask santa
Well I know the crowns are expensive – at the dentists
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