A Good Question
At the young journalist's funeral service, Father Martin McGill asked why it took the cowardly murder of Lyra McKee to unite Northern Ireland's political leaders.
Priest's impassioned plea to politicians at Lyra McKee's funeral: "Why in God's name does it take the death of a 29-year-old woman with her whole life in front of her to get us to this point?" pic.twitter.com/YHQO6EsFf2— BBC News NI (@BBCNewsNI) April 24, 2019
If you ask me, the best tribute that could be paid to Lyra would be for the local community in Derry to restate its opposition to violence and drive out the paramilitary thugs.
And for the political parties in North Ireland to step up to the plate by getting the Government and the Northern Ireland Assembly back up and running.
Not In Our Name!
The landmark Free Derry corner has been repainted to reflect the widespread revulsion felt at the killing of Lyra McKee (Joe Boland/PA)
Cowardly Marchers 9(21/04/19)
48 hours after the murder of journalist #LyraMcKee a republican group who has refused to condemn the shooting marched down O'Connell St
here's what happened when I asked those matching if they condemned the murder of #LyraMcKee pic.twitter.com/F1mjDQs3Gl
Murderers Masquerade as Freedom Fighters (20/04/19)
Following the murder of a young woman journalist, Lyra McKee, in Derry on Thursday night the Revolutionary Irish Republican Party released the following statement.
If you ask me, hiding behind these cowardly, deluded, nauseating words is a gang of self-appointed, sociopaths masquerading as Irish freedom fighters.
So let's hope the community unites to bring these cowards and their supporters to justice.
