'Emigrants' application lodged

LONDONDERRY'S iconic "Emigrants" could be finally on the move in the near future following the submission of a planning application to install the sculpture outside Sainsbury's on the quayside.

The application is for the installation of the Emigrant’s Sculpture (previously located at Waterloo Place) into a paved area outside Sainsbury’s Supermarket on the Strand Road.

Plans for the provision of five granite benches, floodlights, and a lucy cubicle in an adjacent plant bed also await approval.

The plans to move an iconic sculpture commemorating those who emigrated from the port of Londonderry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries have been allowed to go ahead thanks to a 30,000 funding offer from the North West Development Office.

The Emigrants" 1990 by sculptor Eamonn O'Doherty are a series of life-size bronze figures representing those who left these shores for the New World either fleeing poverty and famine or searching for new prospects in the Americas