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Homage to Lyra McKee — the journalist I miss most

Stephen Daisley mourns the intrepid young reporter, shot in Derry last year, who dedicated her life to highlighting injustice in Northern Ireland

Lyra McKee in Belfast, May 2017. Credit: Jess Lowe/Shutterstock.
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  • Lost, Found, Remembered

    Lyra McKee

    Faber, pp. 208, £12

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