Foyle Maritime Festival

DERRY’S Maritime Festival will reach its climax tonight with What Lies Beneath and a parade of light on the River Foyle against a backdrop of a spectacular fireworks display.

Tens of thousands of people are expected to visit Derry this week for the city’s Foyle Maritime Festival and Clipper Round the World Yacht Race stop-over.

Gerard Doherty (68) emerged from one 37-day non-stop sail unshaven and ‘looking like Santa Claus’.

DERRY and Strabane council is continuing with plans for next month’s Foyle Maritime Festival despite some concerns over the structure of Queen’s Quay which forms the hub of the event.

The enormous success of both the Maritime Festival and the Foyle Cup in Derry sent out a strongly positive message after a difficult time for the city.

DERRY has celebrated a successful Foyle Maritime Festival despite a the recent spate of summer violence.

DERRY’S River Foyle will come to life tonight with fireworks, illuminations and animation in the finale of the Foyle Maritime Festival.

AN ALTERNATIVE new theatre experience, which takes place on a pier rather than traditional stage, comes to Derry next week as part of this year’s Foyle Maritime Festival.

TALL ships, cruisers and a massive 42-foot catamaran complete with jazz band will greet the Clipper Round the World yacht race when it arrives in Derry for the fourth time this summer.

THE Clipper Round the World Yacht Race is to return to Derry for a fourth time next year.