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Why I paid £53,000 for Royal print

THIS is the Newry businesswoman who gave the Omagh Fund a right royal boost - by splashing out IR£53,000 on a picture by Prince Charles.
Agnes McCourt, the founder of Unislim, said she bought the lithograph at last night's charity auction in Dublin - which raised £150,000 altogether - because she was so moved by what happened in the tragedy.
"A very good friend of my mother-in-law was killed in the bombing," she explained.
"Also, we do a lot of business in Omagh and any of my girls could have been killed."