, including a walk of remembrance at 9.15am on Sunday. The programme of events is designed to mark how the city has moved beyond the killings, which have left an indelible stain on British and Irish history, he said.
Doherty’s father, Patrick, was 32 when he was shot dead leaving six children behind, the youngest six months old. He had gone out to march with his wife, Eileen, who came back home a widow. No one has been tried for the killings despite the 12-year Saville inquiry, which rejected the commanding officer’s claim they had acted in self-defence.
There is an evolving recognition in Northern Ireland of the inter-generational trauma that children and grandchildren of victims of the Troubles can inherit from the locked-in experiences of living the aftermath.Doherty speaks with regret about his childhood. “I have no specific memory of the killing, but when I was growing up I was always known as ‘Paddy Doherty’s son who was murdered in Bloody Sunday’. I liked the idea of being Tony Doherty from Derry. I sort of quietly resented that.