New I.R.A. Apologizes for Killing of Journalist in Northern Ireland
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/23/world/europe/lyra-mckee-new-ira-apology.html
The journalist, Lyra McKee, 29, died
after she was hit by a pistol bullet fired at the police during a riot
in the strongly Roman Catholic and nationalist Creggan area of
Londonderry, which republicans generally call Derry.
She
is believed to be the first journalist killed in the line of work in
the United Kingdom since 2001, and her death is seen as a worrying echo
of the Troubles of 1968 to 1998,
when more than 3,500 people — many, like Ms. McKee, nonaligned
civilians — died in violence pitting mainly Catholic republican gunmen
seeking a united Ireland against the police, British soldiers and mainly
Protestant gangs defending Northern Ireland’s union with Britain.
