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The Mark Patterson Show: Derry's Garden of Angels, singer-songwriter Cora Harkin, and how The Bank of Mum and Dad has become the Bank of Family

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28/08/2023

Derry's Garden of Angels, singer-songwriter Cora Harkin, and how The Bank of Mum and Dad has become the Bank of Family

BBC Radio Foyle - The Mark Patterson Show, Derry's Garden of Angels, singer-songwriter Cora Harkin, and how The Bank of Mum and Dad has become the Bank of Family

A Garden of Reflection in St Columb's Park for babies lost to miscarriage or stillbirth. 

Derry's St Columb's Park gets a place to grieve for families who have lost babies to miscarriage or stillbirth, 15-year-old singer-songwriter Cora Harkin, and The Bank of Family. 

Working with the stillbirth charity SANDS, the Derry group Minding Mum has created a new garden of reflection for parents and families who have lost a baby. The Garden of Angels is now open in the grounds of St Columbs Park. Mark met Minding Mum member Aine, and group workers Christine McBride and Rhonda Wooler. Housing expert Paddy Gray joins Mark to discuss how the bank of mum and dad is extending to the "Bank of Family" as first time buyers are needing financial assistance not just from parents, but grandparents and other relations. Martin Bradley is here with his Bradley classic as well as "Prisoner's Daughter" and "The Blackening". And after the news at One, in Twenty Minutes with Mark Patterson, we get the update on local ironman Danny Quigley's epic 100km swim (turned out he did an extra 12 km!) and singer songwriter Cora Harkin plays a live tune as she is one of 6 finalists in the Oh Yeah Music Centre's Translink Sessions Sounds of Summer competition.

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