 The church overlooks the Catholic Bogside of Derry which has seen many instances of violence (Bloody Sunday of 1972), but this church ensures that people find peace and quiet there no matter what is going on outside the church grounds.In the Diocese of Derry clergy appointments for 2010 significant changes were made by the then Bishop of Derry - Seamus Hegarty, the Long Tower parish would have to share an administrator due to a priest shortage in the diocese.Father Michael Canny administrator of St Eugene's Cathedral became administrator of Long Tower.