VILLAGE UNITES TO AID FAMILY OF BOMB VICTIM
Village unites to aid family of bomb victim
A VILLAGE'S female Protestants and Roman Catholics united last night to help the family of a gravely ill Omagh bomb victim.
Donemana mother Tracey Devine was seriously wounded in the atrocity which claimed the life of her 21-month-old daughter Breda.
Critically injured, Mrs Devine, 27, is still bravely battling for her life in the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast. She was too ill to attend her daughter's funeral.
A group of Mrs Devine's neighbours in Donemana, a village in the heart of the Tyrone hills, have got together to try to alleviate some of the hardship which the broken-hearted Devine family are now daily enduring.
Last night the neighbouring women staged a unique fund-raising cricket match at the local ground.
The Donemana women's team played a team called The Mixers.
"The, name was chosen because half of the side was comprised of Catholics and the other half Protestants.
"All the proceeds will be given to the Devine family," said one of the organisers.
Mrs Devine had been cut down by flying shrapnel from the no-warning 500lb Real IRA car bomb as she strolled through Omagh with little Breda while browsing for a wedding present for her brother Gary McGillion and his fiancee, Donna Marie.
Breda, who had been born premature and had earlier struggled for life, was to have been a flower girl at the wedding in the week she was buried at St Mary's Church in Aughnabrack.
Tracey's husband, Paul, and the three surviving children are trying to cope with the tragedy.
A VILLAGE'S female Protestants and Roman Catholics united last night to help the family of a gravely ill Omagh bomb victim.
Donemana mother Tracey Devine was seriously wounded in the atrocity which claimed the life of her 21-month-old daughter Breda.
Critically injured, Mrs Devine, 27, is still bravely battling for her life in the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast. She was too ill to attend her daughter's funeral.
A group of Mrs Devine's neighbours in Donemana, a village in the heart of the Tyrone hills, have got together to try to alleviate some of the hardship which the broken-hearted Devine family are now daily enduring.
Last night the neighbouring women staged a unique fund-raising cricket match at the local ground.
The Donemana women's team played a team called The Mixers.
"The, name was chosen because half of the side was comprised of Catholics and the other half Protestants.
"All the proceeds will be given to the Devine family," said one of the organisers.
Mrs Devine had been cut down by flying shrapnel from the no-warning 500lb Real IRA car bomb as she strolled through Omagh with little Breda while browsing for a wedding present for her brother Gary McGillion and his fiancee, Donna Marie.
Breda, who had been born premature and had earlier struggled for life, was to have been a flower girl at the wedding in the week she was buried at St Mary's Church in Aughnabrack.
Tracey's husband, Paul, and the three surviving children are trying to cope with the tragedy.
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Publisher: NEWS LETTER
Ref: NL/272
Published Date: 04-Sep-98
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