'More than a wake-up call' - Mairead McGuinness on the killing of Lyra McKee
"Like lots of people, I always reach for my phone first thing in the morning to see what's happened, and honest to god, it was absolutely shocking when I read that this wonderful young journalist - and we know more about her now because of her terrible murder - that she was literally shot doing her job," McGuinness began.
"I hope to god that people who are a little bit indifferent about the peace process and the Good Friday Agreement will actually gather themselves together, and I would say that to Sinn Féin and the DUP," McGuinness stated. McGuinness noted that the shock of Lyra McKee's death"will resonate in weeks and months to come" after the journalist went out to do her job and didn't return home."Nobody would've anticipated that that could happen in Ireland after the peace process, after our decades of relative peace; some instability.
"The biggest fear I have, and it’s increasingly a global thing, that people will begin to battle with weapons again and we saw the worse effects of that last night at a riot in Derry."
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