But through the devastation and frustration of this story, it’s so important to recognise and celebrate the work that McKee did.

Although she was just eight years old when the Good Friday agreement was signed in 1998, McKee dedicated herself to investigating how the effects of decades of violence and division continued to reverberate down the generations in Northern Ireland.

As a journalist, her work was featured on BuzzFeed, Private Eye and The Belfast Telegraph. In 2016, Forbes magazine named her one of its “30 under 30 in media” because of her work as an investigative reporter.

She also drew attention with her essay “Letter to my 14-year-old self”, which explored the challenges of growing up gay in Belfast. It was subsequently made into a short film.

Lyra McKee’s anthology of “expression and courage” to be published one year after her murder