As I See It: Catherine Drea’s fortnightly column as published in the Waterford News & Star

‘There will never be another Nell McCafferty,’ the congregation was told.

She died in the early hours of Wednesday at a nursing home in Fahan, Co Donegal following a long illness.

The trailblazing journalist died on Wednesday at the age of 80.

The well known author and social commentator has died at the age of 80.

She was born in Derry in 1944, and went on to co-found the Irish Women's Liberation Movement.