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"They left a stone, and had one last look at home."

Nodlaig Brolly visits Carntogher in County Derry to pay tribute to the emigrants who passed through on their way to the ships in Derry that would take them to America.

Nodlaig Brolly visits Carntogher in County Derry 500 metres high on the hills above the Glenshane Pass, to pay tribute to the emigrants who once left stones as they made their way on foot from mid Ulster to the ships in Derry that would take them to the New World, and she performs her song, the Emigrants' Carn.

And Dr Esther Skelly-Smith from Katesbridge in County Down has just become the new President of the Northern Ireland Branch of the British Veterinary Association and the President of the North Of Ireland Veterinary Association.

Presented by Anne Marie McAleese.

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