Jennifer Horgan: Sisters (and brothers), we must continue to fight like McCafferty

MY SISTER rang me just as Nell McCafferty’s death was being announced last week.

I was sitting on the couch with my daughter, cuddling our new addition to the family — a dog called Nero. In the background, an RTÉ radio presenter was mourning and honouring feminist writer and campaigner McCafferty, but I’d stopped listening because I knew from my sister’s voice that she was upset.

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