Mary 'May' Mcgee in the Floraville Gardens at Skerries with a statue in her honour. Photograph: Alan Betson
Mary ‘May’ McGee, whose 1973 Supreme Court case taken alongside her husband Seamus ‘Shay’ and which effectively overturned a 1935 ban on the sale of contraceptives, has died.
Ms McGee, known as May, passed away peacefully at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin on Tuesday, surrounded by her family.
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