May McGee in Floraville Gardens, Skerries, Co Dublin, with a statue erected in her honour earlier this year. Photograph: Alan Betson

A celebration in words, music and poetry of the life of Mary “May” McGee, who successfully took a 1973 Supreme Court case against the State’s ban on contraception, took place at Dardistown Crematorium in Dublin on Saturday.

The ceremony saw three generations of Ms McGee’s family stand beside her white co

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