“I am proud to be a Maasai woman and a Derry girl,“ Mayor Lilian Seenoi-Barr, the first black person to be mayor anywhere in Northern Ireland, told a cheering crowd in the Guildhall on June 3. Colum Eastwood, MP, leader of her party, the SDLP (Social Democratic and Labour Party), stood with her on what he called “a fantastic night in the City of Civil Rights.”
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Mayor Lilian Seenoi-Barr of Derry and Strabane Makes History
By Mary Pay Kelly
IA Newsletter, June 8, 2024
IA Newsletter, June 8, 2024