Mural honouring trailblazing Derry journalist and activist Nell McCafferty unveiled

A mural commissioned in memory of journalist and feminist campaigner Nell McCafferty was officially unveiled in Derry this afternoon.

Nell McCafferty, who died at the 80 last year, was an outspoken advocate for women's rights among other causes.

The new mural is located near Free Derry Corner in the Bogside area, where Ms McCafferty grew up, and was completed by Peaball Street Art Collective.

The mural was unveiled today as part of a number of events marking International Women's Day.

The mural depicts Ms McCafferty alongside the words 'Goodnight Sisters’, the phrase she used to sign off at the end of television appearances and also the title of two volumes of her writings.

Ms McCafferty worked first with the Irish Times and then as a freelance journalist.

Ms McCafferty was a founding member of the Irish Women's Liberation Movement and authored many books, including 'Nell', 'In the Eyes of the Law' and 'The Best of Nell'.

She was notably part of the group of women who travelled from Dublin to Belfast in May 1971 on the so-called "contraceptive train" to buy contraceptives in Belfast.

President Michael D Higgins sent his 'best wishes' to those who took part in the unveiling today.

President Higgins described Ms McCafferty as a 'pioneer' and an 'unrelenting journalist'.

"It is fitting that on this International Women's Day, we honour Nell in a way that ensures her presence remains alive in this community, in the streets that shaped her, and in the city that was always at the heart of her identity.

"Her legacy will endure in the movements she helped inspire, in the freedoms for which she fought, and in the lives she changed."

President also paid tribute veteran journalist, campaigner and life-long friend of Nell McCafferty, Eamonn McCann.