Goretti Horgan

Goretti Horgan is an Irish socialist activist and a lecturer in social policy at Ulster University in Northern Ireland.

Before training as a researcher, she worked as a community worker in Derry city and County Londonderry.

In Northern Ireland, she was a founder member of the Derry Women's Right to Choose Group and of Alliance for Choice.

She was one of nine women who occupied the Raytheon facility in Derry in January 2009, during the Israeli assault on Gaza.

All were charged with burglary and criminal damage but argued in court they were trying to stop Raytheon's collusion in Israeli war crimes.