The leaders of Britain and Ireland have joined hundreds of mourners at the funeral of Lyra McKee, the young journalist shot dead during rioting in Northern Ireland last week.
Ireland's Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, left, Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May and Irish President Michael D Higgins attend the funeral of journalist Lyra McKee at St Anne's Cathedral in Belfast, northern Ireland, Wednesday April 24, 2019. The leaders of Britain and Ireland will join hundreds of mourners Wednesday at the funeral of Lyra McKee, the young journalist shot dead during rioting in Northern Ireland last week.
U.K. Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and the leaders of Northern Ireland’s Catholic and Protestant political parties also attended the service at St. Anne’s Cathedral in Belfast. Some of McKee’s family and friends wore Harry Potter and Marvel items in tribute to her love of those fictional worlds. A small Irish nationalist militant group, the New IRA, said it was responsible. The group apologized, saying McKee was shot “while standing beside enemy forces” — a reference to the police.The IRA and most other paramilitary groups have disarmed since Northern Ireland’s 1998 peace accord, but a small number of dissidents refused to abandon violence, and have targeted police and prison officials with bombings and shooting.
“We were the Good Friday Agreement generation, destined to never witness the horrors of war but to reap the spoils of peace. The spoils just never seemed to reach us,” McKee wrote in 2016. The U.K.’s planned departure from the EU has revived fears of a return to border checks between Northern Ireland, which is part of the U.K., and EU member Ireland. Customs posts or other infrastructure along the 300-mile frontier would disrupt people and businesses on both sides and could become a target of attack.
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