Lunch in 1973 cannot have been at the Everglades
I was intrigued to read in Sinclair Duncan’s memoir published last Tuesday, that he had taken Stan Orme MP to have ‘an excellent lunch’ in the Everglades Hotel outside Londonderry in June 1973.
(The article can be read here:‘Angry calls came thick and fast on news of Whitelaw’s meeting with IRA,’ November 3).
His memory is at fault here since the Everglades Hotel didn’t open until the spring of 1976.
Building hadn’t even begun in June 1973. I wonder if lunch was taken in the Broomhill House Hotel or the White Horse Inn at Campsie?
Richard Doherty, Co Londonderry
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