Paddy Clancy column: New IRA cowards have gone into hiding after senseless murder of brave Lyra McKee
The bloody cowards of the New IRA and their political wing Saoradh won’t show their faces today while other Republicans proudly mark the anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising.
She was too young to remember the violence that crippled her province for 30 years. But, as a seeker of truth, she believed she had a duty to those who suffered before she was born and she willingly recorded their place in history in glowing words.Lyra was killed by scum who are the worst oppressors and most vindictive bigots in a city which decades ago struggled against such atrocities.
One wrote: “You murdered a talented, vibrant woman who had just moved to this city after finding love….She knew all about oppression and bigotry but she fought it with words, not guns. Shame on you. Not in my name.” The police say Lyra was not working when she was shot dead by a lurking masked gunman as she stood near a number of officers. She was an investigative freelance journalist and no doubt would find place in her work to eventually report the rioting she witnessed as she tweeted a photograph with her last comment: “Derry tonight. Absolute madness.”Every one of them showed up in the Creggan to sympathise with the community.
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