High-profile feminist campaigner and journalist Nell McCafferty has died.
She passed away at a Donegal nursing home in the early hours of this morning, at the age of 80.
Born in County Derry in 1944, Nell McCafferty was an outspoken journalist in her 20s - becoming a trailblazer at a time when it certainly wasn’t popular to be one.
She was the founding member of the Irish Women’s Liberation Movement and was on the 1971 'condom train', where women travelled to the North and illegally brought back contraception. She also spoke out about sexual abuse scandals in the Catholic Church, the Kerry Babies Case, and was an advocate for equal rights.
Many will remember her for appearing on radio or TV programmes, like 'The Saturday Night Show', with her distinct sense of humour: Nell McCafferty passed away in a nursing home in Donegal in the early hours of this morning. She was 80 years old.
