Tributes paid as May Blood is remembered as an 'inspirational' campaigner
A service of thanksgiving has taken place for Baroness May Blood at Ballygomartin Presbyterian Church.
She was the president of the Labour Party in Northern Ireland and was also involved with the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition.
In 1999 she was the first woman from Northern Ireland to be given a life peerage.
The Reverend Glen Jordan, said Baroness Blood "had a real concern for people in our communities and a concern for their futures and especially education".
"May was never concerned about getting anything in return which proves her concern was from the heart."
May Blood began working in west Belfast's Blackstaff Linen Mill at the age of 14. When it closed, she ran a training project for long-term unemployed men in the Shankill Road area.
From 1993 to 1999 she worked for the Greater Shankill partnership. She was awarded an MBE in 1995 for her labour relations work.
Baroness Blood played a key role in the 1990s in the formation of the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition.
She represented the Labour Party until stepping down from the Lord's in 2018.