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Lyra Catherine McKee (/ ˈ l ɪər ə m ə ˈ k iː / [1] 31 March 1990 – 18 April 2019) [2] was a journalist from Northern Ireland who wrote for several publications about the consequences of the Troubles. She also served as an editor for Mediagazer, a news aggregator website.
Disease-related deaths in Northern Ireland (4 C) E. People executed by Northern Ireland (2 P) F. Deaths by firearm in Northern Ireland (159 P) M.
Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: Name, age, citizenship at birth, nationality (in addition to British), or/and home nation, what subject was noted for, birth year, cause of death (if known), and reference.
Constable Kerr was Roman Catholic, a group which at the time constituted approximately 30% of PSNI officers (a proportion recruitment policies were trying to increase), [5] and was 25 at the time of his death. He was a member of a Gaelic Athletic Association club, the Beragh Red Knights. The guard of honour at Kerr's funeral was formed of club ...
Catherine and Gerard Mahon were a husband and wife [1] who lived in Twinbrook, Belfast. [2] Gerard, aged twenty-eight, was a mechanic; Catherine, was twenty-seven. [3] They were killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on 8 September 1985, [4] the IRA alleging they were informers.
Margaret Perry was a 26-year-old woman from Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland who was abducted on 21 June 1991. [1] After a tip from the IRA, her body was found buried across the border in a field in Mullaghmore, County Sligo, Ireland, on 30 June 1992. [2] She had been beaten to death. Her murder has never been solved. [3]
Representatives of other groups from all sides of the constitutional issue in Northern Ireland also condemned the killings. [11] The then Chelsea F.C. chairman, Ken Bates, offered a £100,000 reward for information leading to a conviction for the attackers. [12] Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern attended a memorial mass in Dublin for the children. [13]
Aidan McAnespie (22 June 1964 [1] – 21 February 1988) was an Irish Catholic man who was shot in the back by a serving soldier after passing through the Aughnacloy, County Tyrone border checkpoint in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. In November 2022 former British soldier David Holden was found guilty of manslaughter.