‘There will never be another Nell McCafferty’ – Mourners at funeral of renowned journalist applaud her life and legacy

People held LGBT+ rainbow flags on the way into St Columba’s Church, Long Tower, and applauded after one of her articles about Bloody Sunday was read out during the ceremony.

First Minister Michelle O’Neill and representatives of the President of Ireland Michael D Higgins and Taoiseach Simon Harris were among those in attendance.

Tributes have poured in from activists, politicians and artists about her work as a journalist, as a prominent voice on women’s rights issues across the island of Ireland and for co-founding the Irish Women’s Liberation Movement in 1970.

The writer, 80, died on Wednesday at a nursing home in Fahan, Co Donegal, following a long illness.

Addressing the congregation, former journalist Eamonn McCann read out extracts from an article McCafferty wrote for her local paper about Bloody Sunday, which bore the headline “There will be another day”.

The article gave a powerful immediate reaction to the news that 13 people had been shot dead after soldiers…

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