A fair and fearless truth-teller, she saw the schisms that remain in Northern Irish life
When the IRA, and later the loyalist paramilitaries, declared their ceasefires in 1994, ushering in an era of relative peace and stability, she was barely in primary school. She was meant to grow up in a world free from bombings, shootings, sectarian carnage and 24/7 terror. She was part of the post-Troubles generation.
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