Activist Dermie McClenaghan, one of the organisers of the historic civil rights march in Londonderry on 5 October 1968, dies after an illness
Tributes have been paid to veteran civil rights campaigner Dermie McClenaghan, who has died after an illness.He was one of the organisers ofHis lifelong friend Eamonn McCann said Mr McClenaghan "was a constant presence" in the civil rights movement.
The 5 October 1968 march was organised because campaigners saw the unionist-controlled Londonderry Corporation's housing policy as discriminating against the nationalist and Catholic population.Mr McCann told BBC Radio Foyle that he and Mr McClenaghan had been friends for 60 years."People would say of him that there wasn't a bad bone in his body - that was absolutely the case."The two had spent time together on Thursday afternoon, sharing a Christmas drink in a city centre pub.
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