The late and much loved Bishop Edward Daly
SEVERAL of Derry’s most famous stars of music have been paying their own personal tributes to Bishop Edward Daly who died peacefully in hospital on Monday.
Derry born singer and former Eurovision winner Dana Rosemary Scallon has knew Dr Daly since she was a child in Derry.
She says he was “very much a part of the life of our city on so many levels”.
“A lot of people would only have seen him for the first time running with a bloody hanky on Bloody Sunday.
“But I suppose most of us knew him from childhood as a man who loved music, who loved all the arts,” she says.
Derry-born singer songwriter Phil Coulter also paid his own personal tribute.
He said Bishop Daly had helped him through some very “dark” moments.
“Edward was a man who operated on so many different levels. He was a very caring priest, he was a great friend of my family,” he said.
“When my brother and sister drowned in Lough Swilly, one of the first people through the door would have been Bishop Daly.
Singer song write Phil Coulter pays tribute to the late Bishop Edward Daly
“I knew him through all of those dark hours. I knew him through some of my more high-profile days when he was always a great supporter when things were going in a more successful way,” added Mr Coulter.
Nephew Gerard Daly, who grew up in Galway, said he was “humbled” by the tributes paid to his uncle.
Bishop Daly’s remains arrived at St Eugene’s Cathedral in Derry yesterday evening where they will be reposed until his Requiem Mass on Thursday at 3.30 pm
Gerard Daly said: “It’s been very moving coming here to Derry,
“We always knew the great work that he’d done here and how close he was to people, but you really only get a sense of that when you are speaking to people when you hear the tributes.
“People knew him as bishop, as a man to the people of Derry, but he shared the warmth that he had for everybody. Everybody was his family.
“As a young boy myself, he was a giant to me. He loved children, he always loved having fun, having a joke.”
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