Nell McCafferty

Irish journalist and campaigner

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Sat Nov 16 2024 - 05:00

To find the real Nell McCafferty, look to her writing

Her sentences, when she found the perfect one, possess both weight and lightness

Mon Aug 26 2024 - 06:00

Olivia O’Leary: It could be terrifying to be with Nell McCafferty. You never knew what she was going to do or say

What I admired massively about Nell McCafferty was her writing. It was fast-paced, clear, conversational. She reported what it felt like down at ground level

Sat Aug 24 2024 - 06:00

Nell McCafferty ‘changed Ireland for the better’, mourners at her funeral in Derry’s Bogside told

Campaigning journalist and author, who focused on women’s rights, poverty and social injustice, died on Wednesday aged 80

Fri Aug 23 2024 - 16:57

Nell McCafferty’s empathy and precision defined her, but they were a product of manifold tensions and denials

Nell McCafferty lived outside society’s norms and she never stopped challenging them

Fri Aug 23 2024 - 06:00

‘If I’m intimidated, that’s a problem’: Fireworks fly as Joe Duffy hears tales of teenage delinquency

Radio: Liveline callers paint a grim portrait of urban dystopia, while Nell McCafferty’s legacy is vividly remembered across the airwaves

Fri Aug 23 2024 - 05:00

‘A strong woman, took no sh*t’: Members of public sign book of condolences for Nell McCafferty

Online version of book to remain open until September 1st as journalist and civil rights activist remembered as a ‘beacon’ and ‘fearless’

Thu Aug 22 2024 - 17:05

Nell McCafferty’s funeral to take place in Derry on Friday

A book of condolences for the founding member of the Irish Women’s Liberation Movement has been opened

Thu Aug 22 2024 - 06:00

Nell McCafferty: journalist and feminist campaigner dies aged 80

Derry woman was founding member of Irish Women’s Liberation Movement and wrote about social injustice

Wed Aug 21 2024 - 17:29

Nell McCafferty in Pictures

Fierce feminist, journalist, social campaigner, and playwright described as a ‘trailblazer’ and ‘towering figure’

Wed Aug 21 2024 - 12:56

Nell McCafferty obituary: Fierce and fearless journalist and campaigner with ‘lovely sense of divilment’

Nell McCafferty was part of a Bogside aristocracy that included Martin McGuinness, Eamonn McCann, Seamus Deane, Paddy Doherty, John Hume and Dana

Wed Aug 21 2024 - 10:51

Nell McCafferty at 80: ‘Celebrating eight decades of enduring courage’

For many years, the price Nell paid for being on the right side of history was to be reviled in whatever present she stood

Sat Mar 23 2024 - 06:00

Bloody Sunday eyewitness: ‘Defenceless people were cut down by trigger-happy soldiers’

Martin Cowley: Incredulity fuelled fear. Why would soldiers open fire?

Sat Jan 22 2022 - 06:00

Ten trailblazing Irish women who made a difference

An Irishwoman’s Diary

Tue Sept 21 2021 - 01:46

GPs call for ‘safe access zones’ for patients attending doctors

Zones needed to protect doctors and patients from protesters, says Irish council for GPs

Sat May 04 2019 - 19:34

Why do Irish women still have to pay for birth control?

Women can now access abortion services, but for many the most highly effective methods to prevent pregnancy are just too costly

Tue Apr 16 2019 - 07:01

Irish women in politics: ‘Now, now, girlie. There’s no place for women here’

The trailblazing women who breached the male-dominated world of Irish politics encountered sexism and prejudice – from both sexes, writes Martina Fitzgerald, in this edited extract from her new book

Sat Oct 13 2018 - 06:00

Tánaiste denies Government complacency on abortion referendum

Simon Coveney rejects claim while canvassing with FF leader Micheál Martin in Cork

Mon May 21 2018 - 16:32

Compassion’s role in voting on Eighth Amendment

Breda O’Brien: Voting for abortion is voting for despair and overt trust in HSE

Sat May 05 2018 - 05:00

Nell McCafferty: ‘Pro-lifers are right about some things’

Veteran campaigner compares abortion to the mass slaughter at the Somme

Sat Apr 21 2018 - 17:48

Nell McCafferty: We need to talk indoors, not shout outdoors about abortion

No conversation about abortion is complete without celebration of the magnificent plenitude of conception, pregnancy and motherhood

Sat Mar 24 2018 - 06:00

Lord help us and save us from the fallen women and the silly, stupid girls

How much has Ireland really changed since the Joanne Hayes, Ann Lovett and X cases?

Sat Jan 27 2018 - 06:00

100 years of slow progress since women got the vote

2018 should be year women are afforded ‘high place in the councils’ of a free Ireland

Sat Dec 30 2017 - 05:00

Abortion campaigners tell Government what they really, really want

March for Choice: ‘Free, safe, legal’ is the slogan as thousands muster in Dublin

Sat Sept 30 2017 - 19:32

Una Mullally: Remembering Kate Millett and her Irish Loony-Bin Trip

The late American feminist was committed to an Irish mental hospital and rescued by friends

Tue Sept 12 2017 - 09:12

What unites a taoiseach, an archbishop and Chelsea Clinton? U2, of course

Daughter of former US President Bill Clinton flew into Ireland as guest of Bono

Sun Jul 23 2017 - 16:18

Businessman who doubled as ‘secret peacemaker’ between IRA and British

Obituary: Brendan Duddy – Born June 10th, 1936 – Died May 12th, 2017

Sat May 20 2017 - 01:00

‘Secret peacemaker’ Brendan Duddy ‘risked life for peace’

Mourners told of Duddy’s role as intermediary between IRA and British government

Mon May 15 2017 - 18:11

'Marriage was a licence for sex': Ireland and women in 100 quotes

The Women’s Podcast celebrates its 100th episode with 100 quotes by and about women in Ireland

Thu Mar 30 2017 - 10:10

Diarmaid Ferriter: Unpicking McGuinness legacy will take time

Ruthless he was, but crude stereotypes do not do justice to the man or the times

Sat Mar 25 2017 - 05:00

Meetings With Ivor review: a tie-dyed in the wool, almost mystical guru

This documentary about Prof Ivor Browne portrays a divisive figure in a playful way, and is alive to his flaws as his far-out ideas

Thu Feb 09 2017 - 12:01

Nell McCafferty talks hysterectomies and abortion in UCC

Bogside-born campaigner one of four figures to receive honorary doctorates

Wed Nov 02 2016 - 17:13

Irish culture in Paris: ‘I’m not a diplomat. My take is personal’

In 2013 Nora Hickey M’Sichili got her dream job of running the Centre Culturel Irlandais in the French capital. Have recent events changed the tone?

Sat Dec 12 2015 - 08:00

The Women’s Podcast: Sexism in Publishing, Culture Night and Sex Apps

Writer created male alter ego to find an agent, talks about what happened next

Mon Sept 21 2015 - 12:20