Opinion: Lyra McKee’s killing shows how dangerous it is to be a journalist in Northern Ireland
Lyra McKee poses for a photograph in Belfast in May 2017. By Séamus Dooley April 23 at 11:22 AM Séamus Dooley is Irish secretary of the National Union of Journalists .Though she was only 29, McKee was a widely respected journalist who had just signed a two-book deal with acclaimed publisher Faber & Faber.
The riot began after the Police Service of Northern Ireland conducted a number of raids in the area as part of an investigation into the activities of the so-called New IRA. As a freelancer, McKee was on hand to witness the gas-bombing attack on security forces and was standing by a police Land Rover when she was struck by a bullet. She was rushed to the hospital but died of her wounds.
On Good Friday, the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party Arlene Foster paid her first visit to the Creggan, a nationalist enclave. Foster and the leaders of five other parties also issued a joint statement condemning the killing, an unusual occurrence at any time but especially significant in the fraught political atmosphere stemming from Brexit.
On Sept. 28, 2001, my National Union of Journalists colleague Martin O’Hagan was gunned down in front of his wife, Marie, as he walked home from a local pub. O’Hagan was a dogged reporter who specialized in crime and had investigated links between loyalist paramilitary groups and criminal gangs in Belfast. His murder remains unsolved despite well-publicized threats leading up to the shooting, and the specter of police collusion — or at least apathy — hangs over the case.
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