
We need a Lyra McKee Law to penalise those who demonstrate or advocate for any organisation whose go
The murder of young Lyra McKee strikes deep at the core of our society, calling all of us to respond, not with the 'gotcha' politics of revenge, but with a cry from our better angels for the gentleness and devotion to integrity this young women epitomised in her public and private personae. The cult of the gunman was a topic that fascinated her because she was working on a book called The Lost Boys. It is a striking title, suggesting to me that she had a genuine grasp of the

We all knew that one day Lyra McKee would make international headlines but never could any of us hav
The Cold Case Detectives by Lyra McKee Lyra McKee is a freelance journalist and writer Every story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. So does this one. It can be summarised as a bullet, a bullet, and a bullet. This was Lyra McKee's foreword to a collection of essays called 'Paper Trailers' - a series of personal reflections collated and published by Ciaran MacAirt, a writer, researcher and victims' campaigner in Belfast. From the very minute I met Lyra when she was just 1