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With Lyra McKee’s death, we should take stock of what really matters
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“WE WERE the Good Friday Agreement generation, destined to never witness the horrors of war but to reap the spoils of peace,” wrote Lyra McKee, who was killed in Derry on Thursday night.
“The spoils just never seemed to reach us.”
We woke up to the news of McKee’s death on the 21st anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.
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