Dana Lifetime Achievement Award

This year's Lifetime Achievement Award has been given to our original Derry girl, Dana Rosemary Scallon.

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00:00This is a lifetime achievement award sponsored by Dairy City and Stravan District Council.

00:07This is an award allocated to someone from our city and region who has through their life,

00:16through their life, their work, achieved extraordinary success and put Dairy on the map.

00:25Please welcome our beautiful mayor, Rhoda McKee to the stage.

00:46In 1970, a way back,

00:50an 18-year-old schoolgirl left her home in the Bogside bound for Amsterdam to represent Ireland in the 15th Eurovision Song Contest.

01:05What happened that night would change the life of the talented Dairy teenager.

01:11Put Dairy on the map, set for Ireland on its way to building its place in the Eurovision and European history.

01:20Rory, please announce our extremely deserving one of you this evening.

01:26It gives me great pleasure to announce, and my granny would be so proud, she's such a great fan.

01:30The honour of the Lifetime Achievement Award is none other than the original director, Dan.

01:42Dan!

01:43Dan!

01:44Dan!

01:45Dan!

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01:51On their vertex andruids and my granny would be so proud, she's such a great fan.

01:52The honour of the Lifetime Achievement Award is none other than the original director, Dan!

01:55Dan!

01:56Dan!

01:57Dan!

01:58A woman with a success launching a girl from the wrong side, she will describe her pain

02:09in the time of what have been the days of her work, no money, and care.

02:14All kinds of everything at the Youth Day Church with a huge success around the world, a woman

02:20with a deep faith.

02:22Dana has achieved a hugely successful career as a recording artist, having recorded around

02:2720 albums so far, as well as raising a family with her husband, Damien, Dana has also had

02:35a stage actor, a member of the European, Ireland, and a popular TV and radio host.

02:40But most of all, Dana has never forgotten where she came from.

02:44She remains a proud woman of Derry, and the city in turn has never forgotten one of its

02:50most successful, and a deep beloved daughter, Dana everybody!

02:57I always want to be right after the transition to work at the University as well.