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Johnston Wright

Two teams of Northern Ireland men were happy to be back in rainy Belfast in December 1988 after helping to light up a sunny Caribbean island. The men, from Londonderry, Ballymena, Bangor and Craigavon, had just returned from Jamaica after working for three months helping to restore the island's electricity supply which had been wrecked by hurricane Gilbert in September 1988. The 21 linesmen, engineers, foremen and supervisors from the Northern Ireland Electricity Service were part of a 90-strong British emergency team who, with teams from Canada and the United States, brought smiles back to the islanders. Pictured is linesman Alan Hunt from Londonderry who tinkles on the ivories at a party in a Belfast hotel for the Northern Ireland workers who had returned from Jamaica. Picture: Trevor Dickson/News Letter archives

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