Those at the funeral in Derry paid tribute to the trailblazing civil rights activist whose influence on modern Ireland is still keenly felt
Nell McCafferty, the leading Irish feminist campaigner and outspoken writer who “changed Ireland for the better”, has been buried after a funeral mass in St Columba’s church in Derry.
People held LGBTQ+ rainbow flags on the way into the church. Her remains arrived and left the ceremony in a simple wicker casket. Higgins described her as a courageous woman and “a pioneer in raising those searching questions which could be asked, but which had been buried, hidden or neglected”. She campaigned for the legalisation of contraception in Ireland, famously bringing packets of pills back from Belfast to Dublin and handing them over to customs officials in the capital to highlight what she – and her supporters – felt was the absurdity of Dublin’s policies.“In an Ireland trying to emerge from the shadows and find who it was, Nell McCafferty was one of the people who knew exactly who she was, and she wasn’t afraid to enter every battle for gay and women’s rights.
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