Journalist, author and women’s rights activist Nell McCafferty has died at the age of 80.
The Irish Times reports she passed away this morning at a nursing home in Co Donegal.
She was born in Derry in 1944, and went on to co-found the Irish Women’s Liberation Movement.
Taoiseach Simon Harris lead tributes to McCafferty, saying that she left Ireland “a much better place than she found it, and she played her part with spirit and style.
“Nell was fierce, fearless and fiery. If she was in the room or in the debate, you knew about it.
“Her passion and wrath was not scattergun, it had a laser-like focus on calling out inequality and injustice. She suffered no fools but had a kindness and warmth for many. Her wit and Derry turn of phrase made her impossible to ignore,” the Taoiseach said.
“As one of the women who took the train in 1971, she set in train an unstoppable wave for equality and a changing of Ireland for the better. That change has not yet reached its conclusion, but it would…
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