In 1975, two boys from Londonderry, one Catholic and one Protestant, took an unlikely trip to the Netherlands - and it changed their lives. Years later they were reunited by ProinOC to look back for the BBCRadio4 documentary Derry Boys.
Northern Ireland in the 1970s was very different to the Northern Ireland of today.Londonderry was at the heart of many of the most infamous moments of those years, not least, when 13 people were shot dead by the Army after soldiers opened fire on civil rights demonstrators.
Donna also thought they would be a good match because the family all spoke English, but as Danny says: "Boy, did we have a hard time in the first days to figure out their heavy accents."Almost half a century later, Patrick and Raymond have come together to reflect on that journey - a trip that Raymond describes as "going from a world of black and white to a world of colour".
Having found him on social media, I messaged him in the hope of reuniting the pair but Raymond hadn't been home in years and with Covid lockdowns, this delayed any chance of bringing Patrick and Raymond together even further.The opportunity was too good to miss, and it was possible to bring the Dutch travellers back together for the first time in nearly a decade.
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