Seán Duignan introduces this report by Don McManus from Moneymore, Derry, where a meeting in support of Bernadette Devlin is disrupted by Paisleyites.

Michael Farrell and Eamonn McCann both attempt to address the meeting. However, Bernadette Devlin had been advised not to speak at the rally due to the trouble and the threats to her well-being. The meeting is abandoned.

The rally took place on the eve of the by-election for the Mid Ulster seat at Westminster. Don McManus describes the scene as the supporters of Paisley disrupt the rally and the violence that ensues.
 

A RTÉ News report by Don McManus on the continuing tension in Derry on the eve of the bi-election.
This report is introduced by Sean Duignan and was broadcast on 16 April 1969.

The photograph accompanying this clip shows broadcaster, Seán Duignan, here presenting the News Roundup of 1971.
 

The photographer was Eve Holmes
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