- Edward Daly was born on December 5, 1933 in Belleek, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, UK. He died on August 8, 2016 in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, UK.
- He made headlines in 2011 when he said the Catholic Church should allow married priests.
- The 1972 photo of then Fr Daly waving a blood-stained handkerchief near one of the Bloody Sunday victims, is one of the most enduring images of the Troubles. At the time, he was a 39-year-old curate at St Eugene's Cathedral in Londonderry, having been a priest in the city since 1962.
- He was the Catholic Bishop of Derry from 1974 to 1994, when he retired after a stroke.
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