'I still miss her every day': Lyra McKee's partner on new film showing in Cork

The life of murdered journalist Lyra McKee is celebrated in a documentary showing at Cork International Film Festival 
'I still miss her every day': Lyra McKee's partner on new film showing in Cork

The late Lyra McKee and partner Sara Canning.

“Some days I still can’t fathom it, some days I still wake up and think ‘How could somebody have done that, how can Lyra be dead?’”

 Two-and-a-half years after Lyra McKee was murdered, her partner, Sara Canning, still struggles to come to terms with the loss of the woman she was going to marry. “It doesn’t seem real, and I still miss her every day and I still talk about her and think about her constantly.” 

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