A year after moving to Londonderry, celebrated young Northern Ireland journalist...
DUBLIN - A year after moving to Londonderry, celebrated young Northern Ireland journalist Lyra McKee wrote about how she looked forward to “better times ahead and saying goodbye to bombs and bullets once and for all”.
She was killed shortly afterwards, shot dead by an Irish Catholic nationalist gunman firing toward police during a riot that underscored the challenges still faced by Northern Ireland, a British province, 21 years after the Good Friday Agreement largely ended decades of deadly sectarian bloodshed. He linked his post to video of a TED talk McKee gave in 2017 encouraging churchgoers and fellow lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender young people to talk to one another to try and change religious teaching on the subject.
By that stage McKee had already been named Sky News Young Journalist of the Year - an award she won in 2006 - and was named as one of the “30 under 30 in media” by Forbes Magazine ten years later.
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