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Days Like this

Eileen Robinson


Eileen remembers the terrible events of 31st July 1972.

Eileen Robinson

"When I think back to that day everything was so pleasant prior to that. No-one would ever realise that inside 5 minutes the whole world was turned upside down."

The Story

It was 1972 and Eileen Robinson was busy in her kitchen baking Swiss Rolls in preparation of the birth of her daughter when a friend of the family phoned. She heard that there had been a terrible disaster in her home town of Claudy. Her niece Catherine had been killed and her own parents were injured.

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