The NUJ is among those remembering Lyra McKee today on the fifth anniversary of her death.
The 29-year-old freelance journalist was shot dead while observing a riot in Northern Ireland in 2019.
“The fact that there has been no conviction for her killing adds to the grief and sadness felt my those who knew and admired Lyra but above all to her partner, her family and her closer friends.”
https://www.nuj.org.uk/resource/fifth-anniversary-of-the-death-of-journalist-lyra-mckee-marked-by-the-nuj.html
Lyra’s last article was about the ‘ceasefire babies’, her generation born in the 1990s and promised the spoils of peace – safety and prosperity.
‘Your children, they’d told our parents, will be safe now’, she wrote.
‘The days of young people disappearing and dying would be gone now. Yet this turned out to be a lie.’
In her last article, Lyra wrote: ‘When you were a working-class kid with no money and no prospects, and feared people more violent than you, nothing made you feel as powerful as a weapon in your fist.’
https://metro.co.uk/2024/04/18/hope-doesnt-last-long-lyra-mckee-murdered-20662391/