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Sara Canning, partner of Lyra McKee

Sara Canning, partner of Lyra McKee

Released Monday, 20th May 2019
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Sara Canning, partner of Lyra McKee

Sara Canning, partner of Lyra McKee

Sara Canning, partner of Lyra McKee

Sara Canning, partner of Lyra McKee

Monday, 20th May 2019
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It’s been a month since Lyra McKee was killed in Londonderry. She was 29 and was already making waves in journalism as well as being an advocate for the LGBTQ+ community. The night she was shot she had been watching rioting in Creggan, a housing estate on the outskirts of the city. The New IRA said its members carried out the murder. At her funeral politicians were urged to find solutions to Northern Ireland’s problems and Lyra’s partner, Sara Canning, addressed them personally, seizing the opportunity to speak to them candidly. From the very start, she faced the TV cameras to pay her own tributes to her girlfriend. This weekend she’s been speaking at an equal marriage rally in Belfast. She talks to Jane Garvey.

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Presenter: Jane GarveyProducer: Kirsty Starkey

Interviewed Guest: Sara CanningInterviewed Guest: Ashton ApplewhiteInterviewed Guest: Maggy PigottInterviewed Guest: Susie HargreavesInterviewed Guest: Marcella DetroitInterviewed Guest: Siobhan Fahey

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