John Kelly

“He was 17 years old when he was murdered, but still that day he asked his mother for permission to go to the march.”

“On 30 January, 1972, Michael was killed when the British army opened fire on a civil rights march, one of the youngest victims of Bloody Sunday.”

“It put him in a coma for three weeks, and I remember us all kneeling around the bed praying for him.”

“She remembered nothing for five years after Michael was killed, and I thought she would be a victim of Bloody Sunday too.”

“But she became ill in 2003, and she would ask on a daily basis what was happening about Michael. She died in June 2004”

“She walked in at the front side by side with Mrs McKinney, Willie's mother, and I was so proud to see her there.”

“Everything was put in - the suit he wore that day, his textbooks, and his half-eaten Wholenut bar.”

“he was 23 when his 17-year-old brother was shot dead along with 12 others when the British parachute regiment opened fire on a civil rights march.”