People often asked her who she was working for. The truth was, mostly not for anyone, or only for the public
a small child, Lyra McKee at four years old was all questions. Why should her mother, who was poor and had six children and was bringing them up single-handed on the Cliftonville Road in north Belfast, have to pay her bills? Why would she go to jail if she didn’t? No answer ever satisfied her, and she would leave her mother with “Why?” ringing in her ears.
There lay the biggest nest of secrets. The 30-year Troubles between unionists and republicans, Catholics and Protestants, had officially ended when she was eight with the Good Friday Agreement, and after that the long civil war was swept under the carpet or was wrapped like a wound under bandages, whatever metaphor you liked; but hidden, although it still permeated everything.
, who had a right to know. Her route through journalism had been really haphazard. At Queen’s University, where she went for a spell before she dropped out, finding it too like school, she asked a newspaper editor at a careers fair whether he hired investigative reporters, and he laughed at her. No, they didn’t hire those people any more. She trundled between online media sites and online news, publishing here and there, but it was a struggle.
Her readers helped, though. She saw them as her collaborators. Her social network was so wide—all genders, ages, faiths, persuasions—that if one potential source jibbed at talking to a gay Catholic with an unkempt geeky look and a Harry Potter-shirt, another would say, “She’s all right.” Then the site she mostly worked for, Beacon Reader, allowed readers to fund their favourite reporters, and she ran with that.
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