“They” are the New IRA, who remain a palpable presence in Derry despite the public backlash directed at them after they admitted responsibility for Lyra’s death. The Creggan is their turf, a sprawling housing estate on a hill above the Bogside and the Free Derry wall. These estates were on the frontline of the Troubles in Derry and, alongside the civil rights murals that mark the beginning of the Troubles, there are now others eulogising the IRA’s “Men of Violence”, and a sculpture of Easter Lily, the symbol of Irish republicanism, now stands near the Free Derry wall. Fifty years after the Troubles began in this city, local youths are once again being recruited to the cause of violent Irish republicanism.

In Nando’s, it was like a meeting of the Northern Irish branch of the UN – and Lyra was the common denominator Recently, there has been an attendant rise in punishment shootings of those accused of drug dealing and joyriding. “The vast majority in Creggan are amazing people,” says Sara. “They don’t want all this, they don’t want to live in the past.” History hangs heavy here, though, and prospects for the young are bleak.