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Nell McCafferty: Journalist and campaigner dies aged 80

The journalist and campaigner Nell McCafferty has died at the age of 80.

Born in Londonderry in 1944, she was a founding member of the Irish Woman’s Liberation Movement and wrote for the Irish Times among other publications.

She campaigned for the legalisation of contraception in Ireland, including staging a protest where she and other women brought contraceptives over the border from Northern Ireland by train from Belfast to Dublin.

She was the author of several books, including a A Woman to Blame, about the Kerry Babies Case and The Armagh Women, about a hunger strike among female republican prisoners in Armagh jail in 1980.


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